Mirzo Tursun-zade

A full member (academician) of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, Mirzo Tursunzoda (2 May 1911 – 24 September 1977) was a significant Tajik and Soviet poet as well as a well-known political figure. Tursunzoda has been promoted to the status of Tajik Hero today.

He is a well-known public personality and statesman, a deputy of the USSR Armed Forces, a member of the Communist Party of Tajikistan's Central Committee, the head of the Soviet Committee for Solidarity with Asian and African Countries, and a member of the Soviet Peace Committee and so on. He wrote in Tajik and Russian. Nearly all of the poet's works have been translated into Russian; they have also been published numerous times in republican and Union-wide printed media, in literary collections, and in standalone books. Numerous works by Russian and USSR writers, including those by A. Pushkin, T. G. Shevchenko, N. A. Nekrasov, Dzhambul, Shota Rustaveli, and Sh., were translated by him into Tajik. Zulfiya, R. Rashidov, and others.

In Dushanbe, he passed away on September 24, 1977. The 100th anniversary of Mirzo Tursun-Zade was commemorated in Tajikistan and other countries in 2011 as per a resolution made by UNESCO. That's all about the fifth most important historical figures in Tajikistan we want to mention.