Dushanbe (tjk)

Dushanbe

Dushanbe ranks 1,217th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bactria, Amberg, and Florianópolis. Memorable people born in Dushanbe include Vladimir Voinovich, Viktor Bout, and Svetlana Kitova. Memorable people who died in Dushanbe include Sadriddin Ayni, Gulnazar Keldi, and Mirzo Tursunzoda. Dushanbe has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many writers, and social activists. Dushanbe is located in Tajikistan.

Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. As of March 2024, Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being 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: Ismail Samani, Avicenna, Ferdowsi, and Shah Mansur. Read more on Wikipedia