Temur Sabirov

Temur Sabirov was born on 3 April 1940 in Sufiyen, Tajikistan.[1] He was the third youngest of six children. After his father passed away at an early age, he was sent to study at a boarding school. Sabirov's father was a government tax collector. His mother was a housewife. His siblings and relatives are also highly respected and have been involved in politics. His older brother is Bozor Sobir, Tajikistan's most well-known and preeminent poet, and politician. His older brother was also a mathematician and ran for a Senate seat. His nephew, also a mathematician, was the head of a Democratic Party in Tajikistan until his resignation in 2000s. His other siblings went into teaching.

He completed his doctorate in Voronezh, Russia. He was a student of Mark Krasnosel'skii, who was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian mathematician renowned for his work on nonlinear functional analysis and its applications. Temur Sobirov was a professor in Voronezh State University in Russia. His field of research was the theory of ordinary differential equations.[2] His works have been published in Soviet as well as European and American mathematical and physics journals. He has published over 60 scientific articles.[3] He has made a big contribution in the education of young scientists of Tajikistan.[4]

A government primary school as well as a street is named after him in Tajikistan.[5]

He met his wife Nina while studying in Voronezh. He has one son Arthur Sobirov, who at the time of Sobirov's teaching at Voronezh State University attended the Suvorov Military School.[6]

After an acute illness Sabirov died on June 23, 1977, at the age of 37 in Voronezh, but his body was transported to his birthplace near Orzhenikidzebad, now Vahdat, Tajikistan.