Soviet science has suffered a great loss. On July 12, 1977, after a long illness, a prominent orientalist, prominent public figure, director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Bobozhan Gafursvich Gafurov, passed away. B. G. Gafurov was born on December 31, 1908 in the village of Ispisar, near the town of Khojent (now Leninabad) in Tajikistan. He began his career at a local railway station, and then worked in the Komsomol district committee. After graduating from the Higher Law Courses in Samarkand in 1929, B. G. Gafurov works in the justice authorities of Tajikistan. At the same time, he is engaged in journalism and becomes deputy editor of the republican newspaper "Kyzyl Tajikistan". In 1935, after graduating from the All-Union Communist Institute of Journalism in Moscow, Bobozhan Gafurovich was appointed instructors of the Central Committee of the KSHB) Tajikistan. Since 1937, B. G. Gafurov - in responsible party posts-Secretary of the Central Committee of the KSHB) In 1941-1944), Second secretary (1944-1946), and then First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan (1946-1956). At the XIX and XX Congresses of the CPSU, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the party, was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the second - fifth and seventh convocations. As the head of the party organization of the republic, Bobojan Gafurovich contributed to the development of the economy, culture and science in Tajikistan. He played an important role in the creation in 1951. Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR. In 1940, B. G. Gafurov defended his PhD thesis on the history of the Ismaili sect, published a number of books and articles on topical issues of the ideology of the peoples of Central Asia, their struggle against enslavers and oppressors, for the victory and establishment of Soviet power. His work "The History of the Tajik people in brief" - in fact, the first Marxist monogra ... Читать далее