Ghafurov
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| Province : | Sughd | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 13 ' N , 69 ° 44' E | ||
| Height : | 388 m | ||
| Residents : | 15,000 (2000) | ||
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Ghafurov ( Tajik Ғафуров , English transliteration Gafurov ) is a province of Sughd town in the north of Tajikistan . It has 15,000 inhabitants (2000); in 1989 there were still 18,900 living there. The place has been a city since 1965, until 1978 it was called Sowjetabad ( Russian Советабад ; Tajik Советобод , Sowetobod ). Then he was in honor of Bobodzhan Gafurowitsch Gafurow (Cyrillic script: Бободжан Гафурович Гафуров), the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1946 to 1956, renamed Gafurow. The Ghafurow Museum is located in the city .
Ghafurow is the administrative seat of the raion of the same name in the province of Sughd, the city is located a few kilometers southeast of the provincial capital Khujand near the Kyrgyz border. The Rajon itself covers 2,700 km², 266,500 people live there (as of 2002). One of the city's main industries is the production of canned fruit and vegetables. Then there is the cotton processing industry.
In 1945, at the same time as Taboshar (north of Khujand), an experimental plant for the enrichment of uranium ore was put into operation in Ghafurow and closed in the early 1950s.
sons and daughters of the town
- Oleh Skrypka (* 1964), Ukrainian rock musician
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Russian spelling that was common during his lifetime is used here
- ↑ Information on the Russian dictionary search engine mirslovarei.com
- ↑ Russian website on Sughd Province ( Memento from July 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Luigi De Martino: Tajikistan at a Crossroad: The Politics of Decentralization World Bank Report, January 2004 p. 52 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- ↑ Geographical information from Google Earth