P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Dostiev, Abdulmajid
Tajik politician Abdulmajid Salimovich Dostiev was born into a
farming family of Qurghonteppa on May 10, 1946.

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Dostiev graduated from the Tajikistan Institute of Agriculture in

1974. His career began as that of a regular kolkhoz (collective farm)
farmer. He was a team leader, a chief agronomist of the Department of
Agriculture in Qurghonteppa, and an instructor in the Organization De-
partment of the Communist Party Committee of the City. In 1980, he
became a deputy to the chairman of the Lenin Kolkhoz.
Dostiev studied by correspondence and graduated from the Highest
Party School in Tashkent in 1987. Then, for eight years, he worked as
the chief of the Organization Department of the Bokhtar (formerly
Kommunisticheski) District. From 1988 to 1992, he worked as the
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bokhtar District, a most
active region in the ensuing Tajik civil war. In 1992, Dostiev, an active
supporter of Imomali Rahmonov, became the First Deputy Chairman of
the Tajik Parliament. Later on, he headed the government delegation at
the Inter-Tajik Negotiations and was instrumental in the composition of
the new Tajik Constitution. In 1994, Dostiev established the People's
Party of Tajikistan, and since then has served as its leader. At the pre-
sent, he is the Vice-President of the House of Representatives of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Dostiev's contributions include Konstitutsioi Nav (The New Consti-
tution, Moscow, 1997); Mavqi' (Circumstance, Dushanbe, 1999); Ashki
Khoma (Tear of the Pen, Dushanbe, 1999); and Az Khud Natavon
Gurikhtan (We Cannot Run Away from Ourselves, Dushanbe, 2002).
Dostiev is the recipient of the Order of Ismoili Somoni in 2000, the
Order of the Red Banner of Courage in 1981, and others.
Dostiev has traveled to the United States, the Arab lands, Austria,
Japan, France, Germany, India, Iran, Pakistan, Italy, and others.