Ghafurov

Ghafurov

Ghafurov

Place in Sughd Region, Tajikistan

For the district, see Ghafurov district. For the historian, see Bobojon Ghafurov.

Ghafurov (also Gafurov, Tajik: Ғафуров, romanized: Ğafurov/Ƣafurov; Russian: Гафуров, romanized: Gafurov) is a town in Ghafurov district, Sughd Region, Tajikistan. It has a population of 20,600 (2020 estimate),[1] up from 18,900 in the 1989 census.[2] The town was created in 1965, and until 1978 had the name Sovietabad (Russian: Советабад). In that year it was renamed in honor of Bobojon Ghafurovich Ghafurov,[3] commemorating his term of office as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1946 to 1956.

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Ghafurov is the administrative center of Ghafurov district. The city lies a few kilometers southeast of the regional capital of Khujand near the border with Kyrgyzstan. A chief product of the city is vegetable and fruit preserves.[4] There is also a cotton industry. The nearest train station is Khujand (formerly Leninabad).[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  2. [2]
    World Gazetteer, Tajikistan
  3. [3]
    Russian Dictionary-Search engine mirslovarej.com
  4. [4]
    Luigi De Martino: Tajikistan at a Crossroad: The Politics of Decentralization Weltbank-Bericht, January 2004 p. 52
  5. [5]
    Geographic information on Google Earth
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