Jabbor Rasulov Explained

Jabbor Rasulov
Nationality:Tajik
Office3:First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan
Term Start3:April 12, 1961
Term End3:April 4, 1982
Predecessor3:Tursun Uljabayev
Successor3:Rahmon Nabiyev
Birth Date:10 July 1913
Birth Place:Khujand, Samarkand Oblast, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire
Death Place:Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Party:CPSU (1934–1982)
Native Name Lang:tg

Jabbor Rasulovich Rasulov (Tajik: Ҷаббор Расулович Расулов, Russian: Джабар Расулович Расулов; 10 July 1913  - 4 April 1982) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan between April 12, 1961, and April 4, 1982.[1] [2]

Life

Born on July 10, 1913, in the city of Khujand, Samarqand Region (now Tajikistan) to a working-class family. In 1934, he graduated from the Central Asian Cotton Institute. From 1934 to 1938, he worked as a cotton farmer at an agricultural station.

He was the head of Department, Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Tajik SSR from 1938 to 1941. Later, he served as the Commissioner of Agriculture of People's Commissariat for the USSR on Tajik SSR. In 1946, he was appointed as Tajik SSR Minister of Industrial Crops and later as Soviet Ambassador to Togo (1960-1961).[3]

He died in 1982 and was buried in Dushanbe.

Awards

References

  1. Web site: Tajikistan - The Postwar Period. March 1996. 2009-04-10.
  2. Web site: Neimatullo Safarov, Victor Novikov . . 2000 . Leaders of Tajikistan in XX-th century (1924 – 2000) . 2006-08-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060822001055/http://enrin.grida.no/htmls/tadjik/soe2/eng/htm/presid.htm . 2006-08-22 .
  3. Web site: Russian. Расулов Джабар Расулович.