Background
Shotemur was born on December 1, 1899 in Shughnon District, Tajikistan, to a poor farmer family.
Shotemur was born on December 1, 1899 in Shughnon District, Tajikistan, to a poor farmer family.
Communist University of the Toilers of the East.
At the age of 13 Shotemur started assisting his family on the field From 1914 to 1918 he worked at a factory in Tashkent. From 1923 to 1924 he worked as an instructor of the national minorities department of Tajikistan"s Communist Party Central Committee.
At the same time he headed the Tajik communist section.
During his lifetime Shirinsho Shotemur held many leading positions in the Tajik government and in the communist party. In 1937 Shotemur was charged with participation in an anti-Soviet nationalistic organization and arrested in Moscow.
Later the same year the Military board of the Supreme Court of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics sentenced Shotemur to death. He was executed on October 27, 1937.
In 1956 Shotemur was posthumously rehabilitated by Military board of the Supreme Court of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
As of 1927 Shotemur was the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic"s repsentative in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1929, Shirinsho Shotemur successfully insisted on joining Sughd Province to the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Many Soviet historians believe that his initiatives to separate Tajikistan from the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic caused his rivals to falsify charges against Shotemur, which led to his death sentence.
Shirinsho Shotemur was awarded with prestigious state awards during his lifetime, as well as posthumously, including awards from the Republic of Tajikistan in 1999 and 2006. In 1930 Shirinsho Shotemur married Alexandra Mikhailovna Kiselyova, who had recently moved to Tajikistan. Shotemur has two sons - Shirinsho Junior.
(1931), and Rustam (1936).
However, on the way home she was detained again and sent to Krasnoyarsk. Later the same year she died.
Foreign political reasons Shirinsho Shotemur Junior. faced problems entering a university after school. Shotemur Senior"s other family members in Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic were also subject to repression.
Thus, Shirinsho Junior. and Rustam had no contact with their Tajik relatives until their father"s name was officially rehabilitated.
Shirinsho Shotemur was one of the main initiators of establishing the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924. The same year he initiated the exit of Tajikistan from the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and the establishment of the new Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1921 he began pursuing a political career and was sent back to the Pamirs as a member of the political-military team