Woruch
| Woruch | |||
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 51 ′ N , 70 ° 35 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Tajikistan | ||
| Sughd | |||
| District | Isfara | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TJ-SU | ||
| Residents | 23,121 (2009) | ||
Woruch (also: Vorukh ; Tajik Ворух ) is a Dschamoat in the Tajik province of Sughd . Woruch is an exclave enclosed by Kyrgyz national territory . In 2009, around 23,000 people lived in the exclave.
location
Woruch is located in the Fergana Valley , south of the nearest Tajik city of Chorkuh . Woruch is one of 105 jamoats in Sughd Province. The Tajik capital Dushanbe is located in the south-west of Woruch. The Turkestan chain runs south of Woruch .
Conflicts
The demarcation took place during the rule of Stalin in order to weaken the Soviet republics of Central Asia and thus counteract attempts at autonomy. In the 1920s, Woruch was part of the Tajik heartland, since what is now the Kyrgyz part between Tschorkuh and Woruch belonged to the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic . At the beginning of the 1950s, the borders in the region were redrawn and Woruch was in future an exclave in the Kyrgyz SSR . After the Central Asian states gained independence in 1991, the eight exclaves in the Ferghana Valley repeatedly led to conflicts, as the demarcation of the boundaries is often unclear. On January 11, 2013, there was an exchange of fire between Kyrgyz and Tajik security forces. The reason was disputes over the area between Woruch and the western Kyrgyz village of Ak-Sai, which became more explosive when Kyrgyzstan began to build a new road that Woruch was supposed to bypass to avoid border controls. The planned route of the road crossed controversial area. Eight people were injured in the exchange of fire. Jumaboi Sanginov, the governor of the Tajik province of Sughd, called for the road construction project to be suspended as long as the border was not determined. He referred to an agreement between the presidents of the two states. There was another outbreak of violence in April when Tajik residents of the exclave attacked Kyrgyz road workers.
On August 26, 2014, a bilateral meeting took place in Bishkek to regulate the demarcation of the border, on September 4, Tajikistan published plans to build a road from Tschorkuh to Woruch, while construction work on the Kyrgyz road construction project continued.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Dschmoats . 2009.
- ↑ Vorukh. Retrieved November 13, 2018 (de-US).
- ↑ Thomas Kunze: Central Asia: Portrait of a Region . Ch.links, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86153-995-7 .
- ↑ Small Exclave Spells Big Problems For Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. Accessed November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Tone Bringa, Hege Toje: Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse . Palgrave MacMillan, S. 175 ff .
- ↑ Tajikistan begins to build road from Isfara to Vorukh | Tajikistan News ASIA-Plus . ( news.tj [accessed November 13, 2018]).