Georgy Koshlakov

Georgy Koshlakov was deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan on January 23, 1989 when the country was hit by an earthquake. He is quoted as saying: "The earthquake caused a burst of mud from the foothills which poured down on the villages. It was up to five miles wide and one-and-a-half miles long." [cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/23/newsid_2506000/2506569.stm |title=1989: Many killed in Tajik earthquake |publisher=bbc.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2008-02-19]

He is now head of the Department of Economics and Management at the Tajik-Russian Slavic University. [cite news |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ASIN-7BUSVZ?OpenDocument |title=Central Asia's poorest states in crisis |first=Parvina |last=Hamidova |publisher=reliefweb.int |date=2008-02-15 |accessdate=2008-02-19]

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