Name Changes in Tajikistan
Below is a list of the cities and sites that have been
renamed in Tajikistan since 1900. The information for this
page can be found in the following book:
Room, Adrian. Place-Name Changes Since 1900
London, 1979.
If any additions can be made to this page please send them
to the address at the top of the page.
The following is an explanation of terms used on this page:
Present Name: the name used in 1979. The names of many
cities and sites in Tajikistan have changed since independence
in 1991.
Identification: the definition of a location according to USSR
standards. A "village" is the smallest possible definition for
a settlement. A "urban settlement" has at least 2,000 inhabi-
tants. A "town" is larger and more important than a urban
settlement. The term "city" was never used to identify
a location.
Location: the oblast or country a listing is located.
Former Name: name(s) used previous to the change.
Year of Renaming: The year the name was changed. The use
"-c" indicates the exact date of the name change is not know
thus listed date has been estimated.
PRESENT IDENTIFICATION LOCATION FORMER YEAR OF
NAME NAME(S) RENAMING
Aral see Kuybyshevsky
Asht Village Leninabad Shaydan (-c. 1960)
Oblast
(1) Ayni Village Zakhmatabad (-c. 1960)
(2) Ayni see Zafarabad
Baldzhuan see Boldzhuan
Bartang Village Gorno- Sipon(d)zh (-c. 1935)
Badakhshan
Autonomous
Oblast
Baumanabad see (1) Pyandzh
Boldzhuan Village Kulyab oblast Baldzhuan (-c. 1940)
Buston Urban settlementLeninabad Yantak (-c. 1960)
Oblast
Chichka see Oktyabrsk
Chkalovsky see Kayrakkum
Chubek see Moskovsky
Communism Mountain Pamirs Range Garmo Peak (-?)
Peak [name
subsequently
transferred to
present Garmo
Peak, south of
this]
Stalin Peak (1933-62)
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Dragomirovo see Proletarsk
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Dushanbe Capital Dyushambe (-1929)
Stanlinbad (1929-1961)
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Dusti Urban settlement Pyandzh (-c. 1960)
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Dyushambe see Dushanbe
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Gafurov Town Leninabad Stantsiya- (?-c. 1960),
Oblast Leninabad
Sovetabad (c.1960-1978)
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Garmo Peak see Communism Peak
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Gissar Urban settlement Khanaka (-c. 1960)
Kabadian see Tartki
Kaganovichabad see Kolkhozabad
Kalai-Mirzabai see Kalininabad
Kalai-Vamar see Rushan
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Kalininabad Villiage Leninbad Kalai-Mirzabai (-c. 1935)
Oblast
Kalay-Lyabiob see Tadzhidabad
Kaufman Peak see Lenin Peak
Kayrakkum Town Leninabad Kostakoz (-1944)
Oblast
Chkalovsky (1944- ?)
Khanaka see Gissar
Khodzhent see Leninabad
Kirovbad see (1) Pyandzh
Koktash see Leninsky
(1) Kolkhozabad (below)
Urban settlement Tugalan (-?)
Kaganovichabad (? -1957)
(2) Kolkhozabad see Vose, imeni
Kostakoz see Kayrakkum
Kuybyshevabad see Kuybyshevsky
Kuybyshevsky Urban settlement Aral (-c. 1935)
Kuybyshevabad (c. 1935-40)
Leninabad Capital of Leninabad Khodzhent (-1936)
Leninabad Oblast
Oblast
Leningradsky Urban settelement Muminabad (-1973)
Lenin Peak Mountain Kirgiztan/ Kaufman Peak (-1928)
Tajikistan
Leninsky Urban settlement Koktash (-c. 1960)
Sardarova (1960-70)
Karakhana
imeni
Mikoyanabad see Tartki
Molotov Peak see Moskva Peak
Moskovsky Urban settlement Kulyab Oblast Chubek (-c. 1960)
Moskva Peak. Mountain northwestern Molotov (?-c. 1957)
Peak Pamir range Peak
Moskva-Pekin (c. 1957-?)
Peak
Moskva-Pekin see Moskva Peak
Muminabad see Leningradsky
Murgab Village Gorno- Pamirsky Post (-c. 1929)
Badakhshan
Autonomous
Oblast
Norak see Nurek
Novabad Urban settlement Shulmak (-1959)
Nurek Town Norak (-1937)
Oktyabrsk Village Kulyab Oblast Chichka (-?)
Ordzhonikidzeabad Town Yangibazar (-1936)
Pamirsky Post see Murgab
Paituk see Vose, imeni
Proletarsk Urban settlement Leninbad Dragomirovo (-?)
Oblast
(1) Pyandzh Town Kulyab Oblast Saray Komar (-1931)
Baumanabad (1931-36)
Kirovbad (1936-63)
(2) Pyandzh see Dusti
Ramit Village Uramir (-c. 1935)
Regar see Tursanzade
Rushan Village Gorno- Kalai-Vamar (-c. 1935)
Badakhshan
Autonomous
Oblast
Saray Komar see (1) Pyandzh
Sardarova Karakhana imeni see Leninsky
Shaydan see Asht
Shulmak see Novabad
Sipon(d)zh see Bartang
Sovetabad see Gafurov
Stalin Peak see Communism Peak
Stanlinbad see Dushanbe
Stantsiya-Leninabad see Gafurov
Stantsiya- Regar see Tursanzade
Tadzhidabad Village Kalay-Lyabiob (-1949)
Tartki Village Kabadian (-c. 1935)
Mikoyanabad (c. 1935-57)
Tugalan see Kolkhozabad
Tursanzade Town Stantsiya- (-1952)
Regar
Regar (1952-78)
Uramir see Ramit
Vakhan Village Gorno- Zung (-c. 1935)
Badakhshan
Autonomous
Oblast
Vakhsh Urban settlement Vakhshstroy (?- c. 1960)
Vakhshstroy see Vakhsh
Vose, imeni Urban settlement Kulyab Oblast Paituk (-c. 1935)
Kolkhozabad (c. 1935-c. 1960)
Yangibazar see Ordzhonikidzeabad
Yantak see Buston
Zafarabad Urban settlement Leninabad Ayni (-c. 1960)
Oblast
Zakhmatabad see Ayni
Zung see Vakhan
The following was posted with the permission of the author. It
originally appeared in:
Stuart Horsman. "Stalin to Samani:
The Politics of Mountain Toponyms in the Pamirs" paper given at Central
Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, Harvard University, 2-5 October
2003.
Mountain Name changes in the Pamirs
|
Original
Name
|
Date
|
Renamed
|
Date
|
Details
|
|
Dreispitz
|
1928
|
Mount Revolution
|
Post 1945?
|
Discovered and named by Germans in the 1928
German-Soviet Alai-Pamir expedition
|
|
Garmo
(see Stalin)
|
pre-1933
|
|
|
The USSR’s highest
mountain may have originally been known as Garmo.
|
|
Kaufman
|
Pre-1917
|
- Lenin
- Koh-i-Garmo
|
1928
post-1991
|
Koh-i-Garmo change is
unconfirmed
|
|
Kul-Santalak
|
Pre-1910
|
Korzhenevskoy
|
1910
|
Renamed by the Russian
geographer, N. Korzhenevskiy, after his wife.
|
|
Kyrkchilta
|
Traditional name
|
1000 Years of Russian
Christianity
|
c1988
|
|
|
Molotov
|
c1928-33
|
Russia
|
1962
|
|
|
Peacemaker Tsar and Queens
Peaks
|
pre-1917
|
Marx and Engels
|
1928?
|
|
|
Stalin
(also see Garmo)
|
1933
|
- Communism
- Ismail Samani
|
1962
1999
|
It is unclear if the
mountain was originally known as Garmo.
|
Sources:
-
S Horsman, “From Garmo to Samani: The Politics behind the naming of
Pamiri Mountains” Central Eurasian
Studies Society Annual Conference, Harvard University, 2-5 October 2003.
-
Peakware World Mountain Encyclopaedia, http://www.peakware.com/
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M. Romm, The Ascent of Mount Stalin, Lawrence and Wishart, London,
1936.
-
P. Sicouri & V. Kopylov, Forbidden Mountains: The Most Beautiful
Mountains in Russia and Central Asia, Indutech, Milan, 1994.
-
M. Slesser, Red
Peak: A Personal Account of the British-Soviet Pamir
Expedition
1962,
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1964.
This page was first posted in 1997
