Vahob Rahimov

Vahob Rahimovich Rahimov was born on 26 December 1934 in Samarkand. In 1957 he graduated from the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute.

He began as a researcher in the ore-mining department of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR and then did postgraduate study at the Moscow Mining Institute. In 1963 he defended his candidate dissertation and the same year became an associate professor at the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute. In 1972 he received the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences and the title of professor.

At the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute (now Tashkent State Technical University) he headed the department of mine surveying from 1968, served as dean of the mining and metallurgy faculty from 1969, was vice-rector in 1984–1990 and returned to lead the department in 1990.

His research concerned the laws governing geomechanical processes in the rock mass during mining, the creation of environmentally clean technologies for the full and integrated use of mineral raw materials, and the scientific basis for applying electro-optical instruments and satellite systems in mine surveying. He wrote monographs and held inventions.

In 1980 he was named Honoured Scientist of the Uzbek SSR. On 19 May 2000 he was elected an academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan; he was also awarded the Order “Mehnat shuhrati” (Labour Glory).

Vahob Rahimov died on 29 October 2014 and was buried at the Chigatay cemetery.