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Hakimova, Sa'diniso
Tajik obstetrician and gynecologist Sa'diniso Hafizovna Hakimova,
also referred to as Safia Hakimova, was born in the village of Puledon
in Konibodom on December 20, 1924. She joined the CPSU in 1953.
Hakimova graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in
1943 and became an USSR Distinguished Contributor to Health in
1945. For the next year, she served in the regional hospitals (Qurghon-
teppa and Kulab) as an intern. She defended her thesis in 1950, in Mos-
cow, and received her doctorate degree in medicine in 1958. In the same
year, she became the leader of a Health Division in Qurghonteppa. She
became a professor in 1962 and a Corresponding Member of the Acad-
emy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1969. In 1980, she became the
Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Tajikistan
State Medical Institute. She was also the Head of the Research Institute

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for the Well -Being of Mothers and Children. In April 1990, due to in-

ternal political pressure, she resigned from the party.
Hakimova's research deals with the regularization of the function of
the endocrine glands during childbirth, especially in relation to hormo-
nal activities. She also studies the effect of altitude on the development
of reproductive organs, and the decrease in the amount of blood in
pregnant women. Hakimova is the founder of the School of Obstetrics
and Gynecology of Tajikistan. Her contributions include Osnovi en-
dokrinologicheskoi ginekologii (Bases for the Scientific Study of Endo-
crinology in Female Diseases, with Zh. Makin, Moscow, 1966), and
Zalozhniki Imperii (Hostages of the Empire, 1999), about the situation
of the Tajiks in the Soviet Union.
Hakimova was recognized as a Tajikistan Distinguished Scientific
Contributor in 1968. She is the recipient of the Badge of Honor, the
Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan,
the Order of Friendship Among Nations, and the Order of the Commit-
tee for Keeping the Peace.