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unusual facts about Murghab, Tajikistan



Abduhamid Juraev

Abduhamid Juraev (10 October 1932– 5 June 2005) Isfara, Tajikistan was a Tajik mathematician.

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.

Afanasevo culture

The culture became known from excavations in the Minusinsk area of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, southern Siberia, but the culture was also widespread in western Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, and eastern and central Kazakhstan, with connections or extensions in Tajikistan and the Aral area.

Afghans in Tajikistan

However, during the 1990s, few Afghan refugees chose Tajikistan as their destination; most were people associated with Mohammad Najibullah's fallen Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Afghanistan administrations.

Aksu River

Aksu, the name of the Bartang River in its upper reaches in Afghanistan and Tajikistan

Arcady Ruderman

In September 1992 Ruderman traveled to Tajikistan to film a documentary for Ostankino about Davlat Khudonazarov, a fellow filmmaker and opposition candidate in the 1991 Tajikistani presidential elections.

Arctia rueckbeili

It is found in Tien Shan, Alai and Turkestan mountains in Central Asia within Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Chinese province of Xinjiang at altitudes 1300-3500 m a.s.l. The moth flies June to July.

Avalon Historico-Geographical Society

Its main fields of activities include various expeditions in Kazakhstan and abroad, including bicycle ones ("Bronze Ring of Sary-Arka" and "To the Center of Kazakh Land" were among the most important of them), development of ecotourism (Kyzylarai and Ulytau mountain oases mainly) and bicycle infrastructure in Central Kazakhstan, publishing in tourism and travels ("Discovery Kazakhstan" and "Discovery Tajikistan" guide-books).

Badghis Province

Agriculture is the main source of people's income and the existence of Murghab and Hari rivers makes the available land suitable for cultivation.

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.

Censorship of Facebook

In November 2012, Tajikistan blocked access to Facebook in response to comments posted online, spreading “mud and slander” about President Emomalii Rahmon and various other officials.

Chagatai people

The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in south-east Uzbekistan and in southern 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.

Dahana Jamoat

Dahana Jamoat is a jamoat (rural municipality) of Kulob District, Khatlon Province, Tajikistan, in central Asia.

Etruscan shrew

In Asia, it was observed in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Borneo, Bhutan, China (Gengma County only), Burma, Georgia, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia (Malaysian part of Borneo island), Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.

Extreme points of Russia

The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point of the Soviet Union was Kushka in Turkmenistan, and the extreme elevation was the Communism Peak in Tajikistan, at 7,495 m.

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.

Farkhod Negmatov

Farkhod Negmatov (born 22 November 1989 in Vahdat) is a Tajikistani taekwondo practitioner.

Gulafzo Savriddinova

Gulafzo Savriddinova (born 11 September 1947 Isfara, Tajikistan) is a Tajik politician.

Jack Brittingham

The show “Jack Brittingham’s World of Hunting Adventure” is a series of big game hunts in different countries, such as hunting for Marco Polo sheep in Tajikistan or ducks and geese in Canada hunting.

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.

Kulma Pass

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

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.

Ordzhonikidzeabad

Vahdat, a city in Tajikistan that from 1936 to 1992 was named Ordzhonikidzeabad.

Vahdat District, a district in Tajikistan that was formerly named Ordzhonikidzeabad district.

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.

Pyandzh

Panj, a city in southern Tajikistan, formerly known as Baumanabad and Kirovabad.

Qurghonteppa Oblast

Qurghonteppa Oblast (also known as Kurgan-Tyube Oblast) was an administrative subdivision in Tajikistan until 1992, when it was merged with Kulob Oblast to create Khatlon Province.

Robert Frimtzis

In June 1941, at the age of eleven his peaceful town was destroyed by the Nazi Luftwaffe and he survived the ravages of World War II by running for 3000 miles across Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan to Tajikistan.

Roshor

Roshor is a village located on the upper reaches of the Bartang River in Rushon District, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, Tajikistan.

Sarez Lake

The area was so isolated and the destruction of mountain tracks so complete that it took six weeks before word reached the Russian posts at Murghab and Khorog.

Setor

The setor (Tajik: сетор) is a stringed musical instrument played in the eastern regions of Tajikistan, within the Pamiri culture.

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.

Shoista Mullojonova

In September 2005, in Forest Hills High School, Shoista sang for an audience who all came to celebrate her 80th birthday, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Governor George Pataki, President Emomalii Rahmon of Tajikistan, and Boris Kandov, President of the Bukharian Jewish Congress of USA and Canada.

Soon after, the people of Tajikistan heard this and, the following day, President Emomalii Rahmon sent a message to the United States expressing his condolence to the relatives of this legendary singer.

Silk Road Race

All funds that are generated from charity fees are donated to a project started by Cesvi that provide water and sanitation in the south region of Tajikistan.

Snow Leopard award

In Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains there are 3 Snow Leopard peaks, Ismail Samani Peak (formerly Communism Peak) 7,495 m (24,590 ft), Peak Korzhenevskaya 7,105 m (23,310 ft), and Ibn Sina Peak (formerly Lenin Peak) 7,134 m (23,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.

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.

Tajikistan at the Olympics

Tajikistan won its first ever Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, when Rasul Boqiev took the bronze medal in Men's Judo - 73kg.

To date, Andrei Drygin is the only person ever to have represented Tajikistan at the Winter Olympics, being his country's sole competitor in 2002, 2006, and 2010.

Tajikistani presidential election, 2006

Abduhalim Ghafforov — registered as representing the Socialist Party, although this is not the original Socialist Party — that party has been denied registration.

Takhti-Sangin

The ancient town of Takht-i Sangin is located near the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, the source of the Amu Darya, in southern Tajikistan.

Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County

Tashkurgan County is located in the eastern part of the Pamir Plateau, where the Kunlun, Kara Kunlun, Hindukush and Tian Shan mountains come together, at the borders with Afghanistan (Wakhan Corridor), Tajikistan (Gorno-Badakhshan Province) and Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan).

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

Among the 8th-century murals in Panjakent, in the western Sugdh province of Tajikistan, there is a panel from room 1, sector 21, representing a series of scenes moving from right to left where it is possible to recognize the same person first in the act of checking a golden egg and later killing the animal in order to get more eggs, only to understand the stupidity of his idea at the very end of the sequence.

Usoi

Usoi Dam, a natural landslide dam on the Murghab River in Tajikistan

Yaghnob

Yaghnob Valley, a valley in Tajikistan where the Yaghnob River flows;

Zafar Nozim

Nozim was born in the Rasht Valley in Central Tajikistan, and first came to public attention in the early 1960s.


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