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7 unusual facts about Khujand


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.

Abu-Mahmud Khojandi

He was born in Khujand; a bronze bust of the astronomer is present in a park in modern-day Khujand, now part of Tajikistan.

Battle of Jaxartes

Kazakhstan – just south west of the ancient city of Tashkent (the modern capital of Uzbekistan) and north east Khujand (a city in Tajikistan).

Jonibek Murodov

After leaving school Jonibek Murodov received the first higher education in Modern Humanitarian Academy in Khujand city,  the linguist-Arabist specialty.

Khorasan Province

Some of the main historical cities of Persia are located in the older Khorasan: Nishapur and Tus (now in Iran), Merv and Sanjan (now in Turkmenistan), Samarkand and Bukhara (both now in Uzbekistan), Herat and Balkh (now in Afghanistan), Khujand and Panjakent (now in Tajikistan).

Osrūshana

The Oshrusana lay to the south of the great, southernmost bend of the Syr Darya and extended roughly from Samarkand to Khujand.

Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

In October 1929, under the initiative of Shirinsho Shotemur, the Tajik ASSR was transformed into a full-fledged Soviet Socialist Republic and became Tajik SSR, which additionally absorbed the Khujand region (today's Sughd Province in northern Tajikistan) from Uzbek SSR.


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Arbob Cultural Palace, Khujand

The Arbob Cultural Palace is a building in Khujand, Tajikistan, the former headquarters of a Soviet collective farm, built in the 1950s and modelled on the winter gardens of Peterhof, St Petersburg.

Farkhad Dam

The Farkhad Dam (also known as Dam-16) is a hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the Syr Darya River, near Shirin in Sirdaryo Province, Uzbekistan, and Khujand in Sughd Province, Tajikistan.

Khujand prison riot

Many believed members of the Kulyabi clan had killed Ashurov, prompting demonstrations throughout the Khujand region; at least 20,000 in Khujand and hundreds in Istaravshan, Kanibadam, Isfara, and Shakhristan, demanding the arrest of those who killed Ashurov, up-to-date information as the case progressed, and the firing of Kulyabi officials in the regional government.

Tajik Academy of Sciences

Tajik Academy of Sciences (official name Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan) incorporates 20 research institutes and three territorial groupings: the Pamir Branch in the eastern part of the country (with 2 institutes), the Khujand Scientific Center in the north, and the Khatlon Scientific Center in the south-west.


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