Portal:Tajikistan

The Tajikistan Portal Flag of Tajikistan Emblem of Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and most populous city. Tajikistan is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. It is separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the city of Sarazm, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Islam. The area has been ruled by empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, and Mongol Empire. After being ruled by the Timurid Empire and Khanate of Bukhara, the Timurid Renaissance flourished. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire and subsequently by the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929. (Full article...) Selected article - Khudoyor Yusufbekovich Yusufbekov (Russian: Худоер Юсуфбекович Юсуфбеков, Tajik: Худоёр Юсуфбеков; December 10, 1928 — November 27, 1990) was a Soviet scientist and organizer of scientific projects and institutes in Pamir. He was a leading scientist who made a significant contribution to the development of biological sciences, whose name is connected with a new direction of the development of plant growing in the arid mountain and highland territory of Pamir-Alay; a prominent specialist in the field of plant growing, plant introduction and pasture economy, meadow studies, phyto-amelioration, and botany, Yusufbekov was a practicing field researcher, figure of higher education, and professor. In 1968, he developed a system for fodder improvement in the Pamir and Alay valleys that was differentiated from the perspective of the ecological and geographical areas and high-altitude zones. He also implemented a system of arid fodder, and proposed methods of cultivation of useful plants in the Pamir area in 1972. In 1970—1975, Khudoyor Yusufbekov developed the master plan of reconstruction of the Pamir Botanical Garden. In 1969, he became doctor of the agricultural sciences. In 1976, he became an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1962—1969, he was the director of the Pamir Biological Station; at the same time in 1965—1990, he was the Chairman of the Bureau of the Pamir Base; in 1969—1981, the director of the Pamir Biological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR; in 1981—1986, the rector of the Tajik Agricultural Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR; in 1986—1990, the Academician Secretary of the Biological Department of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR. From 1989, he was a Member of the Presidium of Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR. Moreover, he was a state and public figure, the head of the scientific council of the department of biological science of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR and a Member of the coordination council of the department of general biology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1987—1990). He was also a fellow of the Geographical Society of the USSR since 1965, Member of the All-Union and Central Asian Councils of the Botanical Gardens of the USSR (1972—1990), Member of the Council on the "Biological Foundations of the Rational Use and Protection of Flora" of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1976—1990), Member of the Council on the "Biological Foundations of the Development of Mountain Territories in Central Asia" (1975—1990), Member of the Council of the All-Union Botanical Society (1976—1990). (Full article...) List of selected articles Economy of Tajikistan Tajik alphabet Nurek Dam Tajikistan at the 2010 Winter Olympics Tajikistan at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Flag of Tajikistan Tajik passport History of Tajikistan Tajiks Dushanbe Geography of Tajikistan Bokhtar Bactria Sangtuda 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant Corruption in Tajikistan Zarafshan Range Tajik language Khujand Environmental issues in Tajikistan Kulob Guljahon Bobosodiqova Fergana Valley 2014 SCO summit Bukhara Deer Memorandum of Understanding Rustam Emomali Ozoda Rahmon Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic Agriculture in Tajikistan Tajikistan national football team Tajikistani Civil War Emomali Rahmon Pamir National Park Human rights in Tajikistan Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan Tajikistan and the World Bank Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region Vakhsh River Did you know? - Subcategories Tajikistan Tajikistan-related lists Buildings and structures in Tajikistan Culture of Tajikistan Economy of Tajikistan Education in Tajikistan Environment of Tajikistan Geography of Tajikistan Government of Tajikistan Health in Tajikistan History of Tajikistan Organizations based in Tajikistan Tajikistani people Politics of Tajikistan Society of Tajikistan Images of Tajikistan Tajikistan stubs General images The following are images from various Tajikistan-related articles on Wikipedia. Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan) 2001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan) Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan) Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan) Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan) Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan) Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan) A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan) A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan) A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan) A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan) A Sogdian wall mural from the ruins of an aristocratic home in the archaeological site of Panjakent, showing Sogdian men playing a board game, 8th century (from History of Tajikistan) Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan) Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan) Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan) Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan) Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915 (from History of Tajikistan) Painted clay and alabaster head of a Zoroastrian priest wearing a distinctive Bactrian-style headdress, Takhti-Sangin, Tajikistan, Greco-Bactrian kingdom, 3rd-2nd century BC. (from History of Tajikistan) Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan) Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan) CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan) Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan) A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan) A Tajik feast. 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