Jabbor Rasulov


Jabbor Rasulovich Rasulov was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan between April 12, 1961 and April 4, 1982.

Life

Born on July 10, 1913 in the city of Khujand, Samarqand Region 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.
He died in 1982 and was buried in Dushanbe.

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