Dushanbe (tjk)

Dushanbe

Dushanbe ranks 1,761st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hinsdale, Illinois, Schaffhausen, and Bucheon. Memorable people born in Dushanbe include Vladimir Voinovich, Viktor Bout, and Dilshod Nazarov. Memorable people who died in Dushanbe include Sadriddin Ayni, Qahhor Mahkamov, and Mirzo Tursunzoda. Dushanbe has been the birth place of many athletes and writers and the death place of many writers and politicians. Dushanbe is located in Tajikistan.

Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. As of January 2022, Dushanbe had a population of 1,201,800 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad, after Joseph Stalin. Dushanbe is located in the Gissar Valley, bounded by the Gissar Range in the north and east and the Babatag, Aktau, Rangontau and Karatau mountains in the south, and has an elevation of 750–930 m. The city is divided into four districts, all named after Persian historical figures: Ismail Samani, Avicenna, Ferdowsi, and Shah Mansur. Read more on Wikipedia