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February 2010

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The city became a centre for cotton and silk production, and people from all over the USSR were relocated here.

When Stalin transferred Bukhara and Samarkand to Uzbekistan (yes! Historically those highlights of Central Asia are Tajik cities!) many ethnic Tajiks moved to there.

Stalinabad quickly became prosperous, prestigious universities were built, and in 1961 its original name, Dushanbe, was given back by Khrushchev.

 

 
 




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