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unusual facts about Tajik


Sergey Balasanian

Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera - The Uprising at Vosse (first staged in 1939).


Abduhamid Juraev

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

Abdujalil Samadov

Abdujalil Akhadovich Samadov (November 4, 1949 – March 18, 2004) was a Tajik politician.

Abdul Jamil Tajik

Dr. A. Jamil Tajik is an active member of several professional societies and organizations including the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American Society of Echocardiography, International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound and Heart Valve Society of America.

Abdul Momim

During the Civil war in Afghanistan, General Abdul Momim or Abdul Mumin(?-January 5, 1994), was an ethnic Tajik officer who played a crucial role in the downfall of the government of Mohammad Najibullah.

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.

Alexander Frank

Alexander Frank (born 23 September 1982) is a German footballer of Tajik origin.

Alexei Negmatov

Aleksej Negmatov (Tajik: Алексей Негматов; born on 4 January 1986) is a Tajikistani footballer who plays as a defender for FC Vakhsh and the Tajikistan national football team.

Arslanbob

The town of Arslanbob has around 1500 inhabitants; most of the population are Kyrgyz and Uzbek, and less than 1% is Russian, Tatar, Tajik, or Chechen.

Asad Gulzoda

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

Barno Itzhakova

Known as the Queen of the Shashmaqom tradition of Tajik music, she sang side by side on the radio and television with other famous performers of the Tajik Soviet Era such as Neriyo Aminov, Rafael Tolmasov, Shoista Mullodzhanova, Hanifa Mavlianova, Rena Galibova, Ahmad Boboqulov, and others.

Baz Mohammad Ahmadi

Ahmadi is an ethnic Tajik and was a mid-level commander in the Jamiat Islami military alliance under Ahmed Shah Massoud that fought in the civil wars that dominated Afghanistan after the withdrawal of Soviet occupation forces in the early 1990s.

Daykundi Province

36% Hazara and Tajik, 10% Mika, 18% Mir, 14% Zerger, 10% Sadat (Sayyid), and 17% others.

Faryab Province

Former Tajik warlord Ismail Khan also fled to Faryab to reconstitute his forces following the Taliban takeover of Herat Province, but was betrayed by Uzbek warlord Abdul Malik Pahlawan.

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.

Gulafzo Savriddinova

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

Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments

The museum was founded in 1990 by Gurminj Zavkibekov (1929–2003), Tajik actor and musician, who was honored as a National Artist of Tajikistan and a laureate of the most prestigious national prize in arts for significant contributions to the cultural heritage of Tajikistan - the Rudaki State Prize.

Habiburahman Parandi

Habiburahman Parandi was a Tajik battalion commander of Baba Jan's regiment during the Siege of Kabul.

Hadia Tajik

Hadia Tajik is in a relationship with Stefan Heggelund, a communications consultant and politician for the Conservative Party.

Iraj Bashiri

Fluent in English, Persian/Tajik and several Turkic languages, Bashiri has been able to study and translate works otherwise inaccessible to the mostly Russian-speaking Central Asian studies community.

Khalilullah Khalili

In 1929, when Habībullāh Kalakānī – a local Tajik from Kalakan – deposed Amānullāh Khān, Khalili joined his uncle Abdul Rahim Khan Safi, the new governor of Herat, where he remained for more than 10 years.

Kulma Pass

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

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.

Negmatullo Saidovich Kurbanov

Negmatullo Saidovich Kubanov (b 30 September 1963) is a Tajik major general in the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan.

Nigina Amonqulova

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

Noqol

Historically they have called themselves Tajik to distinguish themselves, first, from the Qashqai a nomadic Turkic tribe that have been their neighbors for at least two centuries, and secondly from the Lurs, who lived in the west range of the Dena mountains long before them.

O with diaeresis

O with diaeresis (Latin) (Ö, ö), a letter in Latin alphabets such as Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Swedish, Romani, Turkish, Azerbaijani and Tajik

Olim Kamalov

By learning the specific of miniature painting and restoring copies of miniatures of Middle Age Persian-Tajik artist K. Behzod, O. Kamalov works on the series of his own works of modern miniature.

Pakistani people

There are countless other ethnic groups that make up part of Pakistani's mosaic such as the Bengalis, Burmese, Hazara, Tajik, Persian, Arab and Hakka; the last are an ethnic group that traces its origin to China.

Setor

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

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

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.

Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring

This country-name rTa-gzig is believed to be a form of the name Tajik; while the Ol-mo-lung-ring is believed to be a form of the name of the city Olmaliq (now reckoned as being within Uzbekistan, but formerly included within Tajikistan).

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.

Tajik American

Tajik Americans or Tajikstani Americans are American citizens of Tajik descent.

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 insurgency

On 18 October, three suspected insurgents were killed by Tajik soldiers on the outskirts of Garm, located near the Afghan border during a military operation.

On 21 July, the head of the Tajik Intelligence agency was assassinated by insurgents in the city of Ishkashim.

The Tajik government then launched a joint military operation on the 25 July in the city of Khorog with the aim of capturing Tolib Ayombekov, who was said to be behind the 21 July killing and the 19 September ambush.

Takhir Sabirov

The Scheherazade trilogies were among one of the first Tajik film productions that achieved distribution beyond Russian (former USSR) borders, placing Tajik film on the map of International Film Festivals.

Tashkurghan

Tashkurgan Town - official spelling: Taxkorgan, is a Tajik town in western Xinjiang, China.

Turkic migration

Thus the ethnonym "Turk" for the diverse Islamized Turkic tribes somehow served the same function as the name "Tajik" did for the diverse Iranian peoples who converted to Islam and adopted Persian as their lingua-franca.

Tursunzoda

In 1978, the town and with it the whole district were renamed in honor of the Tajik national poet, Mirzo Tursunzoda.


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