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29 unusual facts about Dushanbe


Abdumalik Bahori

Abdumalik Bahori (Баҳорӣ Абдумалик, 22 March 1927 Leninabad, USSR - 3 December 2010, Dushanbe, Tajikistan) was children poet and the first Tajik fiction writer.

Asad Gulzoda

In 1958 he graduated from the Tajik Language and Literature Department, University of Dushanbe.

Border Troops Academy

The Border Troops Academy is a higher education college for training of officers for the Tajik Border Troops, located in Dushanbe, the capitol of Tajikistan.

Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006

The French Air force had Dassault Mirage 2000Ds deployed at Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to support coalition forces in Afghanistan, from the 'EC 03.003' Ardennes unit.

Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2007

Six French Mirage 2000D close air support aircraft and two C-135F refuelling aircraft were based at Dushanbe airport, Tajikistan but relocated to Kandahar on 26 September 2007; from there they conduct operations in support of all coalition forces.

Davlatmand Kholov

A multi-instrumentalist, trained in Shashmaqam at the Conservatory of Music in Dushanbe, he's well known for his works on the two-string dutar, ghijak, and setar which are popular instruments in Central Asia.

Ded Moroz

In 2012, a young man dressed as Ded Moroz was stabbed to death in Dushanbe by a crowd shouting "You infidel!".

Gissar Valley

It is about 100 km long and up to 20 km wide in the middle, stretching from Vahdat district in the east to Tursunzoda district on the border with Uzbekistan in the west, with the capital Dushanbe and Hisor district at its center.

Gustav Krist

Krist also mentions the construction by the Emir, using Austrian engineers, of a secret base at Dushanbe in the Tadjikistan Mountains.

Human trafficking in Tajikistan

The government continued to station border guards at Dushanbe’s airports and along border checkpoints, and trained them to identify potential traffickers and victims.

Kulma Pass

On the Tajik side, the pass is 80 km by road to Murghab and about 850 km to Dushanbe.

Kulobi people

Emomalii Rahmon, from Dangara in Kulob oblast, became president of Tajikistan in November 1992 when Kulobi militiamen took control of the capital Dushanbe from opposition forces.

Mamadsho Ilolov

In January 2008, Ilolov held a press conference in Dushanbe to announce the creation of a new nanotechnology branch of the Tajik Academy of Science.

Manija Dawlat

In 2006, she performed in a series of concerts along Leila Forouhar in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Mohammed Alim Khan

After four days of fighting, the emir’s citadel (Arc) was destroyed, the red flag was raised from the top of Kalyan Minaret, and the Emir Alim Khan was forced to flee to his base at Dushanbe (in present-day Tajikistan), and finally to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he died in 1944.

National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan

The office of the NOC is located in the center of the city, on Aini Street in Dushanbe.

Nigina Amonqulova

Then Nigina moved to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, and began to perform Tajik traditional folk songs.

Nuriddin Davronov

He was born in Dushanbe to a family of artists, both his parents are famous.

Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Highway, the world's second highest international road, runs from Dushanbe in Tajikistan to Osh in Kyrgyzstan through the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, and is the isolated region's main supply route.

Pamiri people

During the Tajikistan Civil War from 1992–1997 Pamiris in large backed the United Tajik Opposition, the Pamiris were targeted for massacres, especially those living in the capital Dushanbe and Qurghonteppa Oblast.

Rahmatullo Fuzailov

During 2008 winter he returned to Russian First Division, but in the summer transfer window returned to Dushanbe to play for Energetik.

After playing for 7 years in different Russian clubs, in 2007 he returned to Dushanbe due to personal problems.

Rastokhez

Its prominent position in the opposition to the ruling Communist Party of Tajikistan insured that it became the main scapegoat for the Dushanbe riots of February 1990.

Saleh Mohammad Registani

In the late 1990s he was appointed as the military attaché of the ousted-Rabbani government to Dushanbe, Tajkistan.

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Subsequent annual summits of the Shanghai Five group occurred in Almaty (Kazakhstan) in 1998, in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in 1999, and in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) in 2000.

In October 2007, the SCO signed an agreement with the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, to broaden cooperation on issues such as security, crime, and drug trafficking.

Shuhrat Mamajonov

Born in Dushanbe, Mamajonov played football for clubs in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Tahir Badakhshi

His 20th death anniversary was held in Dushanbe in 2000 by the Institute of Oriental Studies as well as his 32nd anniversary in February 2011 in Kabul.

Transport in Kyrgyzstan

Manas International Airport near Bishkek is the main international terminal, with flights to Moscow, Tashkent, Dushanbe, Istanbul, Baku and London.


Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia

In 2003 AKMICA presented Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in a nine-day concert tour of Central Asia featuring concerts and workshops in Bishkek, Almaty, and Dushanbe.

Arcady Ruderman

On 22 September 1992 Ruderman was killed while traveling by car along the road from Nurek Dam to the capital Dushanbe, an area that at the time was experiencing heavy fighting between government and opposition forces.

Dushanbe Zoo

Student pen-pals at schools in Dushanbe and Albion, Indiana brainstormed ways to increase safety at the zoo, and to improve the zoo in general.

Khorugh State University

In the early 1990s, during the Tajik Civil War, it was very dangerous, if not fatal, for Pamiri people to go to universities and other educational institutions in Dushanbe or other southern cities of Tajikistan, as they were frequently targeted by rival groups.

Kofarnihon River

It rises on the southern slopes of Gissar Range in Vahdat district, formerly Kofarnihon district, and flows for about 400 km in the general south-western direction past the cities of Kofarnihon, Vahdat, and Dushanbe, where it turns south and runs through Khatlon Province toward the border with Afghanistan.

M41 highway

In the 1985 film Spies Like Us, the decoy GLG-20s played by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are told to meet their contacts on the "road to Dushanbe," a reference to the M41 highway.

Paul Butkevich

Paul Butkevich has taken part in approximately 150 movies and plays also outside the borderlines of Latvia, in his most active years it was common to travel twice a week or more to Dushanbe-Kaliningrad-Moskow-Sverdlovsk-Simferopol, he has even been awarded as an artist by Russian Federation.

Tajikistan insurgency

The incident occurred, when a vehicle was stopped at a military checkpoint on the road between Garm and Dushanbe.

Zakir Mammadov

Zakir Mammadov attended a variety of scientific sessions, conferences in Baku, Tashkent, Samarkand, Fergana and Dushanbe.