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Khojaev, Zikrullo
Tajik neurosurgeon Zikrullo Pochoevich Khojaev was born in Khu-
jand on May 9, 1916.
Between 1933 and 1939, Khojaev was a student at both the
Dushanbe and Tashkent Medical Institutes. From 1939 until 1941, he
interned at the Dushanbe surgery clinic of the Republic. After the War,
he became a Lecturer, and later, Assistant Professor and Director of the
Surgery Department of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. From
1957 to 1965, he was Dean of the same institute. He received his doc-
torate degree in medicine in 1970, and became a professor in 1971.
Khojaev's research deals with various types of problems involving
surgery, including neurosurgery. He is the founder of Department of
Neurosurgery in the Republic. His contributions include Klinika i leche-
nie yazvi zheludka i dvenadtsatiperstnoi kishki (The Care and Treat-
ment of Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers) in Healthcare in Tajikistan,
Vol. 5, 1965.
Khojaev became a Distinguished Scientific Contributor to Tajik
Health in 1959. Hospital No. 3 in Dushanbe is named after him. In addi-
tion, he is the recipient of the Order of Lenin, the Order of Red Star, the
Order of the Patriotic War, nine medals, and the Honorary Order of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Khojaev died in Dushanbe on December 13, 1973.
Khojaeva, Inoyat
Tajik poet Inoyat Khojaeva, also referred to as Farzona, was born on
November 3, 1964, in Khujand. She received her early education in the
public schools of Khujand.
Khojaeva graduated from the Khujand Pedagogical Institute in 1985.
Thereafter, she worked for Haqiqati Leninobod. For a while, she was a
poetry consultant for the Union of Writers of Tajikistan's Khujand Divi-
sion. At the present, she is the Deputy Director of the Kamol Khujandi
and Bobojon Ghafurov Prizes.

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