His kindness lives on in our hearts: on the 85th anniversary of Daler Shorakhmatullayev’s birth

There are people whose lives are measured not in years but in the good they managed to leave behind. Daler Shorakhmatullayev was one of those people. He was born on October 28, 1941, in Khorog and lived a short yet remarkably full life. Today, on what would have been his 85th birthday, we remember him with warmth and gratitude. His life was the journey of a man who traveled from classroom teacher to senior positions in the republic, yet never lost sight of his true calling: to serve people, to teach, and to enlighten. A teacher by vocation Daler Shorakhmatullayev began his working life in 1965 as a teacher at Secondary School No. 8 in Khorog, where he worked until 1968. The young educator quickly distinguished himself, and by 1968–1970 he was serving as deputy principal of Secondary School No. 18 in Dushanbe. From 1970 to 1974 he headed Secondary School No. 40 in the capital.

It was during those years that his conviction took shape: a school is the foundation of society, and a teacher is its chief pillar. From 1974 onward his career moved into government and party work: Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Zheleznodorozhny District Soviet of People’s Deputies of Dushanbe (1974–1977), Second Secretary of the Zheleznodorozhny District Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan (1977–1979), and Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Dushanbe City Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan (1979–1985). In 1984, while serving as head of a department at the Dushanbe city party committee, he led a delegation on an official visit to the city of Klagenfurt, Austria. The trip concluded with the signing of a friendship and cooperation agreement in the economic and cultural spheres between Dushanbe and Klagenfurt. It was a time when…