Timeline of Dushanbe
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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20th century
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- 1923 - Town of Dushanbe established in the Emirate of Bukhara.[1]
- 1925 - Town becomes capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- 1929
- 1934 - Tajikistan National Museum established.
- 1935 - Ura-tepe-Stalinabad road opens.[1]
- 1946 - Pamir Stadium opens.
- 1950 - CSKA Pomir Dushanbe football club formed.
- 1951 - Academy of Sciences of Tajik SSR established.
- 1955 - Trolleybuses begin operating.
- 1960 - Zoo opens.
- 1961 - City named "Dushanbe" again.[2]
- 1964 - Dushanbe Airport in operation.
- 1975 - Palace of Unity and Hotel Tajikistan built.
- 1979 - Population: 510,000.[3]
- 1981 - Saodat Teahouse built.[4]
- 1984 - Goskino Cinema and Concert Hall built.[4]
- 1987 - Sister city relationship active with Boulder, Colorado, USA.[5]
- 1990
- 12–14 February: Dushanbe riots.
- Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments established.
- 1992 - Demonstrations against government.[6]
- 1996
- Mahmadsaid Ubaydulloyev becomes mayor.
- Dynamo Dushanbe football club formed.
- Russian-Tajik Slavonic University established.
- 1997 - Presidential Palace stormed.[7]
21st century
- 2002 - Curfew lifted.[7]
- 2003
- Academy of Maqâm founded.[8]
- 2003 Central Asian Games held.
- 2005 - January: Car explosion.[6]
- 2007
- 14 November: Bombing at Palace of Unity.
- Istiqlol Dushanbe football club formed.
- Population: 670,168.[9]
- 2009 - New Dushanbe Synagogue opens.
- 2011 - Dushanbe Flagpole erected.
- 2012 - 5 September: Fire in Karvon market, and subsequent protest.[10]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 History of Civilizations of Central Asia, 6, Paris: UNESCO, 2005
- 1 2 G.R.F. Bursa (1985). "Political Changes of Names of Soviet Towns". Slavonic and East European Review. 63.
- ↑ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
- 1 2 ArchNet.org. "Dushanbe". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Boulder Sister City Program". USA: City of Boulder, Colorado. Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - 1 2 "Tajikistan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- 1 2 "Dushanbe". Tajikistan. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Aga Khan Music Initiative". Aga Khan Development Network. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Huge Tajikistan market fire provokes angry protest". BBC News. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
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Further reading
- Magnus Marsden (2012), Caroline Humphrey, ed., "For Badakhshan-the Country without Borders: Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan City in Tajikistan", Post-Cosmopolitan Cities, New York: Berghahn Books
External links
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