Background
GAFUROV, Bobodzhan was born in 1908 in village Ispisar, Tadzhikistan.
GAFUROV, Bobodzhan was born in 1908 in village Ispisar, Tadzhikistan.
1928 graduated Samarkand Law School. 1935 graduated All-Union Institute of Journalists, Moscow.
Orientalist; Party official. Doctor of History Science since 1953. Full member, Tadzhikistan Academy of Sciences, since 1951.
Corresponding member, USSR Academy of Science, since 1958. Director, Institute of Asian Peoples (until 1960 Institute of Oriental Studies), USSR Academy of Science, since 1956. Bureau member,Department of History Science, USSR Academy of Science, since 1957.
Chief Editor, journal “Sovremenny Vostok” (The East Today), since 1957. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, 1952-1961. Specialist in recent and contemporary hist, of peoples of the East.
1956 member, USSR Parliamentary Group at 45th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Bangkok. 1957 headed Soviet delegate, to 24th International Congress of Orientalists, Munich. Since 1958 Chairman, Soviet Committee Implementation of the UNESCO East-West Project, and also Chairman, Organization Committee Convening 25th Congress of Orientalists.
1960 Pres, of this Congress, held in Moscow. Chairman, Learned Council for the Study of the History, of the National Liberation Struggle Against Colonialism and History, of the Development of the Eastern Countries,Department of History Science, USSR Academy of Science. Deputy, Tadzhikistan Soviet of 1938 and 1955 convocation.
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1946, 1954 and 1958 convocation. Since 1958 member, Commission for Foreign Affairs, Soviet of Nationalities, USSR Supreme Soviet. 1929-1932 Department Head, then Assistant Editor, newspaper “Krasny Tadzhikstan”.
1935 again Deputy Editor, then Editor of above newspaper. 1936-1940 instructor, then Section Head, Deputy Department Head, and Department Head, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Tadzhikistan. 1941-1944 Secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Tadzhikistan.
1944-1946 Second. Seer, and 1946-1956 First Secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party Tadzhikistan.
All religious orders impose irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Member, Communist Party, since 1932.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.
Member, Communist Party, since 1932.