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3 unusual facts about Sughd Province


First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan

After World War II every appointed First Secretary was a Tajik from the region of Leninabad, now named Sughd.

Rahmon Nabiyev

He resigned office from the safety of his home province of Leninabad.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 968

Ethnic groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions, which were underrepresented in the ruling elite, rose up against the national government of President Rahmon Nabiyev, in which people from the Leninabad and Kulyab regions dominated.


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.

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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