Kamol Aini buried next to his father in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, August 16, 2010 - Son of the founder of modern Tajik literature Sadriddin Aini, academician Kamol Aini who has died past Saturday in Dushanbe on 83 year of life, on Sunday, August 15 has been buried next to his father in Capital Park named S. Aini.

The well-known Tajik scientist Kamol Aini has devoted creative life to continuation of father’s skill, studying and propagation of Tajik-Persian literature and culture, publications of monuments of writing on Persian, Dari, Tajik, Russian and English languages, popularization of a cultural heritage of people of Iran and Central Asia.

Kamol Aini was born on May 15, 1928, in Samarkand. After leaving school he entered Leningrad Institute of Oriental studies, ended in 1953. From 1953 to 1955 he was senior employee of Language and Literature Institute of Sciences Academy of Tajikistan, and from 1960 became a member of Writers’ Union of Soviet Union.

Kamol Ajni was the founder of a society of Tajiks of world Paivand, which he headed certain time. Being the academician of Academy of natural sciences in Moscow, the scientist was engaged in researches of development problems of 15-16 centuries literature, in particular heritages of Badriddin Hiloli and his contemporaries.

Until recently Kamol Aini headed the literary Fund named S.Aini with the program of research and rescue of east manuscripts and a written heritage.