(55) As late as 1970, party and state officials in Tajikistan regarded the problem as one of inadequate information and directed agencies to organize advertising and meetings calling on youth from the countryside to join the workforce in either the smaller cities or the more developed industrial centers of Dushanbe (the republic capital) and
Leninabad. (56) In the 1970s, however, attention turned to diagnosing why such measures tended to magnify the problem rather than solve it.
As attested by such names as Abbottabad and
Leninabad, many--abad names seem to be of fairly recent historical origin; nonetheless, some of them, such as
Leninabad (now Khujand), have already gone the way of Constantinople.
Henri Weber was born in
Leninabad (now Khujand) in 1994 and was elected to the European Parliament twice - in 2004 and 2009.
case- Malariotherapy date patients Chesson Papua New Guinea, 145 No circa 1944 Hlebnikovo Moscow Oblast, 19 Yes 1948 Holland Netherlands, 52 Yes circa 1928 Korea North Korea, 21 Yes 1953
Leninabad Tajikistan, 33 Yes 1950 Madagascar Madagascar, 83 Yes 1925 McCoy Florida, USA, 70 Yes 1931 Moscow Moscow, 1950 55 Yes NICA (Nicaragua) Nicaragua, 6 No circa 1970 Nahicevan Azerbaijan, 5 Yes 1937 Naro-Fominsk Moscow Oblast, 21 Yes 1946 Panama Panama, circa 10 No 1970 Rjazan Ryazan, Russia 21 Yes circa 1945 St.
The 23-metre (75 feet) monument to the founder of the Soviet state had stood in Tajikistan s second largest city of Khujand -- formerly called
Leninabad -- for two decades after the Soviet Union crumbled.
Observers remain concerned about possible secessionism in the northern Soghd (formerly
Leninabad) region and in the eastern Mountainous Badakhshan region, and tensions between ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks within Tajikistan.
1 A man soaks in a private room at Garm Chashma, a Soviet resort built in the Tajik Pamir mountains in 1957 next to mineral water springs; 2 A covered woman in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan; 3 The water that nourishes the whole region comes from melting glaciers and snow in the mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; 4 The cityscape of Khujand viewed through a dusty and cracked window of the
Leninabad hotel; 5 Villagers near the border of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
Table 8: Determinants of vulnerability in Tajikistan log hh total consumption per capita expectation variance Location Whether household lives in urban area 0.014 0.011 Dushanbe--capital 0.365 *** 0.02 GBAO -0.203 *** -0.03 RSS 0.297 *** 0.091 **
Leninabad 0.021 0.006 Household characteristics Household size -0.139 *** -0.034 ** Household size squared 0.005 *** 0.001 Age of household head -0.001 -0.001 Whether household head is male 0.124 *** -0.052 Ethnicity of household head Tajik 0.179 -0.066 Russian 0.192 -0.129 Uzbek 0.142 -0.058 Tartar -0.182 0.329 Kyrgyz 0.133 -0.219 Whether hh head obtained at least 8th class 0.017 -0.055 * Prop.
Uzbeks, who made up a quarter of the population and were concentrated in the more industrialized and wealthier northern oblast of
Leninabad (later Khujand, now Sughd province, which extends into the Ferghana Valley), as well as ethnic Russians, most of whom lived in the north or in Dushanbe, were disproportionately represented in the Tajik government.
In the political arena Tajikistan was divided into four major administrative regions: Khujand, formerly known as
Leninabad, the central region claiming the capital; the districts of Garm, Khatlon (Kulob and Qurghonteppa) and Gomo-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast.