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]
Jabbor Rasulov | |
|---|---|
Ҷаббор Расулов | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan | |
| In office April 12, 1961 – April 4, 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Tursun Uljabayev |
| Succeeded by | Rahmon Nabiyev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 July 1913 Khujand, Samarkand Oblast, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire |
| Died | 4 April 1982 (aged 68) Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Tajik |
| Political party | CPSU (1934–1982) |
Life
editBorn 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
edit- Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
- Nine Orders of Lenin (1944, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1973, 1981)
- Order of the October Revolution (1971)
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1945)
- Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, 1965, 1976)
References
edit- ^ "Tajikistan - The Postwar Period". March 1996. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
- ^ Neimatullo Safarov, Victor Novikov (2000). "Leaders of Tajikistan in XX-th century (1924 – 2000)". UNEP/GRID. Archived from the original on 2006-08-22. Retrieved 2006-08-11.
- ^ "Расулов Джабар Расулович" (in Russian). Archived from the original on April 26, 2013.
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