Nazarshoh Dodkhudoev (1915–2000) was a
Soviet Tajik
Tajik, Tadjik, Tadzhik or Tajikistani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Tajikistan
* Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan
* Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan
* Tajik (surname)
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politician. He was born in
Rushan in the
MBAV. He graduated from college in 1935, a year after he started his political career by joining the
Komsomol
The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...
. He edited the youth paper ''
Pioneer Tajikistana
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In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an American pioneer, a person in American history who migrated west to join in settling and de ...
'' in 1939–1940. He worked for the
NKVD secret service throughout the 1940s, before he was appointed head of the provincial executive committee of
Badakhshon
Badakhshan is a historical region comprising parts of modern-day north-eastern Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China. Badakhshan Province is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Much of historic B ...
''
veloyat''. In 1950, he became chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
Tajik SSR, and from 1956 to 1961, he was the head of the Tajik SSR government as well as its minister of foreign affairs.
He was the father of
Larisa Dodkhudoeva
Larisa Nazarovna Dodkhudoeva (born 1947) is a Tajikistani art historian.
Biography
Born in Dushanbe, Dodkhudoeva is the daughter of politician Nazarsho Dodkhudoev; her sister Lola is a historian of some repute. She graduated from the Repin Insti ...
and
Lola Dodkhudoeva.
[''Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan'', by Kamoludin Abdullaev]
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20th-century Tajikistani politicians
1915 births
2000 deaths