P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Tojiev, Komil
Tajik surgeon Komil Tojievich Tojiev was born in Konibodom on
October 25, 1910. He joined the CPSU in 1943.
Tojiev graduated from the 2
nd
Moscow Medical Institute in 1937,
and contributed to the war effort between 1941 and 1945. Between 1946
and 1951, he was a Lecturer in the Department of General Surgery at
the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. From 1952 to 1954, he was the
Acting Head of the Department of General Surgery of the Tajikistan
State Medical Institute. In 1960, he became the Head of the Department
of General Surgery of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. He re-
ceived his doctorate degree in medicine in 1960. He became a professor
in 1961, and an academic in 1965. From 1965 to 1973, he was the Rec-
tor of the same institute. He is the founder of the School of Surgery of
Tajikistan.
Tojiev's contributions include Mumiyo i stimuliatsia regenerativnikh
protsessov (Wax and External Regeneration Processes, with T. M.
Tukhtaev, Dushanbe, 1971).

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Tojiev was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Science in

1963. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of Friendship
among People, the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1
st
and 2
nd
Class, and the Badge of Honor.
Tojiev died in Dushanbe on March 30, 1981.
Tojiev, Yoqub
Tajik hygienist Yoqub Tojievich Tojiev was born in Konibodom on
November 23, 1918. He joined the CPSU in 1950.
Tojiev graduated from Tashkent State Medical Institute in 1944, and
then contributed to the war effort (1941-45). From 1947 to 1949, he was
the Head of the Konibodom hospital. Between 1949 and 1951, he was
the Director of the Health Care Division of Leninabad. He became the
Acting Minister of Health of Tajikistan from 1954 to 1959, and from
1959 to 1961, he was the Acting Chair of the State Medical Institute of
Health at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1961, he became
the Director of the Department of Social Hygiene and Establishment of
Medical Care of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. He received his
doctorate degree in 1970, and became a professor in 1971.
Tojiev's contributions include Nigahdorii Tandurustii Tojikiston ba
Pishvozi Revolutsioi Kabiri Sotsiolisti (Tajikistan's Health Services
Welcomes the Great Socialist Revolution, Dushanbe, 1957); Zdra-
vookhranenie Tadzhikistana (Health and Well-Being in Tajikistan,
Dushanbe, 1974); and Istoria Meditsini, (The History of Medicine,
Dushanbe, 1979).
Tojiev was recognized in 1982 as a Distinguished Scientific Con-
tributor to, and as one of the major founders of Health Services in Taji-
kistan. He has received many medals and orders, especially the Order of
the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1
st
and 2
nd
Class, and the
Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.