Sorojon Yusufova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 05-May-1910
Place of Birth: Bukhara, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzbekistan
Date of Death: 15-May-1966
Profession: scientist
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Sorojon Yusufova
- Sorojon Mikhailovna Yusufova (Tajik: ??????? ?????????? ???????) (May 5, 1910 – May 15, 1966) was a Tajikistani geologist of the Soviet era. Born in Bukhara, Yusufova graduated from Samarkand State University in 1935.
- In 1940 she began work at the Institute of Geology at the outpost of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the Uzbek SSR; she continued in this position for three years.
- In 1946 she moved to the Institute of Geology at the Tajik SSR's branch of the Academy of Sciences, remaining there until 1948 and working as the head of geologic studies related to coal and oil.
- Simultaneously, beginning in 1940 and continuing until her death, she worked in the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography of Tajikistan State University; she became the first to lead the department when she was appointed to the post in 1948.
- Her doctorate, which she received in the same year, was in the fields of geology and mineralogy.
- She became a professor in 1950 and an academician of the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences the following year.
- In 1962 she became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- Yusufova's main sphere of research was the mineral properties, elemental composition, and geochemistry of clay and loam.
- Among her writings are Mineralogical Peculiarities of Central Asia's Yellow Dust (Moscow, 1951) and Mineralogical Peculiarities of the Loess in the Vakhsh Valley (1985).
- For her work, in 1960, she was named a Distinguished Contributor to Science in Tajikistan.
- She died in Dushanbe.
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