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Ghafforov, Razzoq
Tajik linguist Razzoq Ghafforov was born into a merchant family of
the village of Khaimar, Samarqand, on January 15, 1932.

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Ghafforov graduated from the Samarqand Pedagogical Institute in

1949 and from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute in 1953. He taught
middle school from 1949 to 1951. From 1953 to 1954, he was Instructor
of People's Education of Samarqand. Between 1954 and 1959, he was a
Teacher in the Department of Tajik Philology at Samarqand State Uni-
versity. He was a Scientific Worker in the Language and Literature In-
stitute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan from 1959 to 1965. In
1965, he became the Director of the History of Tajiki Language and
Dialectology of the same institute. He received his doctorate degree in
philology in 1979, and became a professor in 1984.
Ghafforov's contributions include "Zabon va Uslubi Rahim Jalil"
("The Language and Style of Rahim Jalil," 1966); "Lenin dar Borai
Zabon" ("Lenin On Language," 1966); "Revolutsiai Oktiobr va Zaboni
Adabii Tojik" ("The October Revolution and Literary Tajiki," 1970);
"Navisanda va Zabon" ("Author and Language," 1977); "Ustodi
Buzurgi Sukhan" ("The Great Master of Language," 1978); and "Shivaii
Janubii Zaboni Tojiki" ("The Southern Dialect of Tajiki," 1979).
Ghafforova, Munzifa
Tajik philosopher Munzifa Qahhorovna Ghafforova was born in
Khujand on November 4, 1924. She joined the CPSU in 1965.
Ghafforova graduated from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute in
1944. She was a Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of Leninabad
from 1944 to 1947, and Director of the Tajikistan branch of the Cultural
Committee of the Communist Party. She was a post-graduate student of
philosophy between 1952 and 1955 at the Academy of Sciences of
Tajikistan. Following that, in 1955 and 1957, she was a senior teacher
in the Department of Marxism-Leninism of the Dushanbe Pedagogical
Institute (women's section). She was an Assistant Professor at the same
institute from 1957 until 1962. From 1962 to 1974, she was the Head of
the Department of Philosophy. She received her doctorate in philosophy
in 1968, and became a professor in 1970. In 1975, she became the Dean
of the Institute.
Ghafforova's research deals with the development of the personality
of women in the Soviet East. Her contributions include Dukhovnii oblik
zhenshchini Sovietskogo Vostoka (The Spiritual Aspect of the Women of
Soviet East, Dushanbe, 1969), and Zanoni Respublikai Kuhiston (The
Women of the Mountain Republic, Dushanbe, 1974).

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Ghafforova became a Distinguished Scientific Contributor to Tajik

Culture in 1974. She received two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor,
the Order of Friendship Among People, and the Honorary Order of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.