Emomalii Rahmon (Tajik: Эмомалӣ Раҳмон;Persian: امام علی رحمان‎; Russian: Эмомали Рахмон) (born October 5, 1952) is a Tajik politician who has served as the head of state of Tajikistan since 1992, under the position of President since 1994. During the early years of his presidency, he faced a civil war in which up to 100,000 people died. In 2006, Rahmon won his third term in office.

Rahmon was born to a peasant family in Kulob, in the Kulob Oblast, now part of Khatlon province. In 1971-1974 he served in the Soviet Armed Forces. As an apparatchik rising through the nomenklatura, his original power base was as chairman of the collective state farm of his native Dangara. In 1982, he graduated from the Tajik State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. Between 1976 and 1988, Rahmon was the Chairman of the Union Committee of the collective farm in the Dangara region of Kulob province. He also held various positions in leading Government divisions at that time.

In 1990, Rahmon was elected a people's deputy to the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR.^{[citation needed]} President Rahmon Nabiyev resigned in the first months of the Civil War in Tajikistan in August 1992. Akbarsho Iskandarov, Speaker of the Supreme Soviet, became acting president. Iskandarov resigned in November in an attempt to end the civil unrest. The Supreme Soviet met in Khujand and abolished the position of president that same month. Rahmon, then the Speaker of Parliament, became the head-of-government.

Yudik Mullodzhanov (born June 18, 1942) is a tenor, violinist, and music teacher. He is known, within his community, as the "Bukharian Pavarotti".

Yudik Ribievich Mullodzhanov was born in 1942 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan to a Bukharian Jewish family.^{[citation needed]}

In 1959, he entered Music College in Dushanbe and graduated in 1965. After graduation, he was accepted to the Gnesin's Academy of Music (aka Gnesin's Institute) to study viola under the tutelage of Professor Alexander Vasiliyevich Bagrintsev. He graduated from the Gnesin's Academy of Music in 1970.^{[citation needed]}

While in the conservatory studying viola, he studied singing under the tutelage of Professor Mordvinov Vladimir Ivanovich. He also worked in the music school of Krasnoarmeyski (Moscow region) at the time of his study. After graduating the Gnesin's Academy of Music, Mullodzhanov worked as a teacher of violin and viola at SMS - Special Music School for gifted children in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. At the same time he worked as a violin teacher in the Music College and also in the Art Institute of Tajikistan of Mirzo Tursunzade.^{[citation needed]}