Rahmon Nabiyev

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Rahmon Nabiyevich Nabiyev (5 October 1930 – 11 April 1993) was a Tajik politician and engineer who served as the second president of Tajikistan from 1991 until his resignation in 1992. Having previously served in this role briefly for 13 days from September to October 1991, Nabiyev was the shortest-serving president in Tajikistan's history and was also the first directly elected Tajik president. Born into a family of farmers in Khujand, Nabiyev started working as an accountant on a collective farm at the age of 16 in 1946. In the same year he entered the Leninabad Agricultural College (now Agricultural University of Tajikistan) and graduated in 1949. In 1954, he began to work for two years as the chief engineer of the machine-tractor station in Isfisor. In 1961, Nabiyev joined politics and became the Minister of Agriculture in 1971, serving in this role until in 1973 where he became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers (head of government). Aged 43 upon assuming office, Nabiyev was...

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