Bobojon Ghafurov

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Bobojon Ghafurovich Ghafurov (December 31, 1909 - August 12, 1977) (Tajiki/Persian: Бобоҷон Ғафуров/باباجان غفورف) was a Tajik historian, academician, and the author of several books, including History of Tajikistan. He was born in Isfisar, near Khujand in Tajikistan. He received his PhD from Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1941 with a dissertation on "History of the Isma’ili Sect". From 1944 to 1946, he was the Second Secretary and, from August 1946 to May 24, 1956, he was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1956 to the end of his life, Ghafurov served as the Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, and the Editor of the Asia and Africa journal. The city of Ghafurov (formally known as Bobojon Ghafurov) and Ghafurov district, in the Sughd province of Tajikistan, is named after him.

[edit] References

• Iraj Bashiri, Prominent Tajik figures of the twentieth century, Dushanbe, 2002

[edit] External links

• Tajik banknotes - includes picture of 50 Somoni note with Ghafurov's face.

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