- Shurab, Tajikistan
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footnotes =Shurab is a town in
Isfara district of theSughd province,Tajikistan .Geographic coordinates :coord|40|02|30|N|70|32|30|E Population: about 4,000 in the early 2000s.The town was established in 1952 in
Tajik SSR . In Soviet time it had a population of 8,400 (1991), most people worked incoal -mining industry. There were several factories, Palace of Culture, a stadium, a library, amovie theater , a park, etc. The town was supplied byMoscow , wages of local people were higher, than in many other Tajik towns, and housing there was considered prestigious by many citizens of theUSSR .After the breakup of the USSR in 1991, most of the coal mines, factories, culture institutions were closed and the town lost about a half of its population. As of 2003, the town, with many buildings went to ruins, looked as if there were
bombings , water supply system was almost broken, water was supplied to people for about ten minutes a day, a three room flat there cost about 150 rubles (5USD ).It is the birthplace of legendary gold medal gymnast
Nellie Kim .References
*ru icon [http://www.newizv.ru/news/?n_id=226&curdate=2003-08-04 Live Shadows of the Ghost Town] - an article about Shurab in
Novye Izvestia ,2003 ,August 4
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E3DA1239F93AA25751C1A9669C8B63&n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fRussia%20and%20the%20Former%20Soviet%20Union Rich Slice of Soviet Asia, Left to a Lonely Despair]
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