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not published until the 1980s. In fact, during the latter part of his life, he

was blacklisted for having sent his son to England to be educated.
Completed in 1967, Vose' portrays the life of a revolutionary peasant
who is forced by circumstances to rise against Amir Abdul Ahad (ruled
1885-1910). To gather materials for the novel, Ulughzoda visited
Khavaling, studied the family relations of Vose', and interviewed some
of the older people who still remembered the event. The novel makes its
nonconformist author the third most prominent writer of twentieth cen-
tury Tajikistan, the other two being Sadriddin Aini and Jalol Ikromi.
Ulughzoda joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1934.
He was a Distinguished Artist of Tajikistan in 1962. He also gar-
nered three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, two Badges of Honor,
and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of
Tajikistan.
Ulughzoda died in Moscow in 1997.
Umarov, Bakhtiyor
Tajik physicist Bakhtiyor Sultanovich Umarov, son of Sulton
Umarov, was born in Samarqand on February 21, 1941. He joined the
CPSU in 1975.
Umarov graduated from the Moscow State University in 1964. Be-
tween 1964 and 1986, he was a junior Scientific Worker, and Head of
the Laboratory of Optoacoustics at the Institute of Physics and Technol-
ogy in the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate
degree in physics and mathematics in 1985. In 1986, he became the Di-
rector of the Scientific Division of the Central Committee of the Com-
munist Party of Tajikistan.
Umarov's research deals with spectroscopy. He discovered the spec-
trography of the diffusion of light combinations in centrally asymmetri-
cal crystals. He also determined the relationship between the various
diffusion patterns of light and crystals. His contributions include,
Vvedenie v spektroskopiyu kombinatsionnogo rasseyania sveta v
kristalakh (Introduction of Controlled, Distorted Lighting Via the
Crystals into the Spectroscope, Dushanbe, 1982).