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Vohidov died in Baghdad under mysterious circumstances on No-

vember 9, 1977. He is buried in Dushanbe.
Vositov
See Vositzoda, Abdujalil.
Vositzoda, Abdujalil
Tajik poet Abdujalil Vositzoda, also referred to as Vositov, was born
on February 20, 1929, into a family of farmers in Khujand.
Vositzoda graduated from the literary division of Khujand Peda-
gogical Institute in 1949. Between 1956 and 1981, he contributed regu-
larly to two newspapers: Bo Rohi Lenin and Tojikistoni Soveti. Between
1981 and 1987, he was the Director of Irfon Publication. In 1987, he
became the Editor of the children's division of Adib Publications.
Vositzoda's early poems were published in the local newspapers in
the late 1940s. His collections of verse include Shi'rho dar borai Tabi'at
(Poems About Nature, 1955); Dar Sohili Syr (On the Bank of the Syr,
1958); and Javobi Savsan (Savsan's Reply, 1958). Vositzoda's prose
works include the following collections: Dil Oro (Sweetheart, 1964);
O'inai Dil (The Mirror of the Heart, 1979); Guftor bo Dil (Dialog with
the Heart, 1982); and Masnadi Iqbol (The Throne of Fortune, 1987).
Vositzoda joined the Union of Writers of Tajikistan in 1957.

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Ya'qubov, Yusufshoh
Tajik archeologist Yusufshoh Ya'qubov was born in Darvoz on No-
vember 18, 1937, into a family of farmers.
Ya'qubov graduated from the Institute of History of Tajikistan State
University in 1960. He received his doctorate degree in 1988 and be-
came a member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1991.
Ya'qubov started his career in the 1960s as the head laboratory assistant
in the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.
From 1963 to 1966, he was a graduate student in the Institute of History
of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1966 to 1970, he was a
Junior Scientific Worker at the Academy. In 1970, he defended his the-
sis entitled Pargar dar Asrhoi VII-VIII (Pargar in the Seventh and
Eighth Centuries) at the Oriental Studies Division of Moscow Univer-
sity. In 1988, he defended his dissertation entitled Dehahoi Sughd Asri
V-VIII Milodi (Sughdian Villages during the Fifth to the Eighth Cen-
turies After Christ).
Ya'qubov's contributions include Pargar dar Asri VII-VIII (Pargar
during the Seventh and Eighth Centuries), Dushanbe, 1979; Dehahoi
Sughd dar Asrhoi V-VIII Milodi (The Sughdian Villages of the Fifth to
the Eighth Centuries After Christ), Dushanbe, 1988; Dini qadimi Sugh-
dion (The Old Religion of the Sughdians), Dushanbe, 1996; Tojikon
(The Tajiks), Dushanbe, 1994; and Ta'rikhi Khalqi Tojik Ibtidoi Asri
Miona (History of the Tajiks at the Beginning of the Middle Ages),
Dushanbe, 2000.
Ya'qubov is recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Tajik
science.