Tamara Abaeva

Tamara Grigorievna Abaeva was a Soviet Uzbek and Tajik historian, specializing in oriental studies. She was born in Khiva and studied at the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. In 1961, she obtained her doctorate in history with a dissertation titled Essays on the history of Badakhshan. She was an employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR. She contributed to numerous historical works, her specialization being the history of the Pamir-Hindukush region of Afghanistan and that of Badakhshan.