Background
SEMYONOV, Aleksandr was born on October 12, 1873 in Tambov Province. Son of a peasant.
SEMYONOV, Aleksandr was born on October 12, 1873 in Tambov Province. Son of a peasant.
Graduate Tambov Teachers’ Institute. 1900 graduate Lazarevskiy Institute of Oriental Languages, Moscow.
Company-founder and professor, Centr Asian University, Tashkent. From 1951 director, Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography, Tadzh Academy of Sciences. Member, B< mbay Sciences Social.
Studied the history, languages and ethnography of the peoples of Centr Asia. Also specialized in the history of Islam. Wrote some 230 works.
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.
Member, Tadzh Academy of Sciences from 1951. Correspondent member, Uzbek Academy of Sciences from 1943.