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Tajikistan

Author · Tajikistan

Abulqosim Lohuti

Died in 1957

Abulqosim Lohuti was born on 4 December 1887 in Kermanshah, the son of a craftsman who wrote mystical verse. Involved in the Persian constitutional revolution, he led an uprising in Tabriz in 1922, then, after its failure, crossed into the Soviet Union and settled in Tajikistan, where he was deputy commissar for Education from 1925 to 1930. Secretary of the republic's Writers' Union from 1934 to 1939, he wrote the words of the Tajik anthem in 1945 and received the Order of Lenin. He died in Moscow on 16 March 1957.

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