Research Structure

On this page, incrEAST provides an overview of the research and technology potential of Tajikistan.

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Regular scientific research work in Tajikistan was started at the end of the 1920th and the beginning of the 1930th. These works were carried out by the scientists of the Academy of Sciences of USSR in the form of realization of complex expeditions. The tasks of these expeditions included: to study the history and culture of Tajik people, to investigate the natural resources of the Republic, to set up the research centres, and to train scientific staff of the Republic.

These expeditions, included geographers, geologists, botanists, zoologists, geodesists, economists and other specialists, collected a huge primary material which afterwards served as a basis to systematic and purposeful scientific research.

Nowadays the Academy of Sciences of Republic of Tajikistan unites 17 research institutes, including the Pamir Branch of AS RT which comprises 2 institutes, Khudjand Scientific Centre and a number of other scientific establishments conducting research work in the fields of natural, technical, medical and social sciences.

The scientific establishments of the Academy of Sciences of Republic of Tajikistan are incorporated in three Branches: a) Branch of Physical-Mathematical, Chemical and geological Sciences; b) Branch of Biological and Medical Sciences and c) Branch of Social Sciences.

The Branch of Physical-Mathematical, Chemical and Geological Sciences unites the following research institutes: the Institute of Mathematics, the Umarov’s Physical-Technical Institute, the Institute of Astrophysics, Nikitin’s Institute of Chemistry, the Institute of geology, the Institute of Persistent Seismic Construction and Seismology and also the Department of Material Studies.

The Branch of Biological and medical Sciences includes the following institutes: the E.N.Pavlovskiy’s Institute of Botany, Zoology and Parasitology, the Institute of Physiology of Plants and Genetics, the Institute of Gastroenterology, the Kh.Yu.Yusufbekov’s Pamir Biological Institute.

The Branch of Social Sciences unites the following institutes: the A.Rudaki’s Institute of Language and Literature, the Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage, the A.Donish’s Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, the Institute of Philosophy and Law, the Institute of Economics, the Institute of Humanities.

The following establishments are functioning at the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences: the Centre of Demographic Studies; Council for Coordination of Scientific Research Work; Committee for Terminology; department of Training of Scientific Staff; Publishing House “Donish”, Indira Gandi’s Central Scientific library.

Academician of AS RT Mamadsho Ilolov was elected as President of Academy of Sciences of Republic of Tajikistan in 2005.

Source: InExCB-KZ (FP7-NCP)
Last up-date: 28.04.2009