Ghafurov

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Ghafurov (also Gafurov, _tg. Ғафуров, _ru. Гафуров) is a town in Ghafurov district, Sughd Province, Tajikistan. It has a population of 15,700 (2008 estimate), ["Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2008", State Committee of Statistics, Dushanbe, 2008. ru icon] down from 18,900 in the 1989 census. [ [http://gazetteer.de/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=fr&des=wg&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&geo=-209 World Gazetteer, Tajikistan] ] The town was created in 1965, and until 1978 had the name Sovetabad ( _ru. Советабад). In that year it was renamed in honor of Bobojon Ghafurovich Ghafurov, [ [http://mirslovarei.com/content_bes/Gafurov-13432.html Russian Dictionary-Search engine mirslovarej.com] ] commemorating his term of office as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1946 to 1956.

Ghafurov is the administrative center of Ghafurov district. The city lies a few kilometers southeast of the provincial capital of Khujand near the border with Kyrgyzstan. A chief product of the city is vegetable and fruit preserves. [ [http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/87193/TajikRegion%28eng1%29.pdf Luigi De Martino: "Tajikistan at a Crossroad: The Politics of Decentralization" Weltbank-Bericht, January 2004 p. 52] ] There is also a cotton industry. The nearest train station is Khujand (formerly Leninabad). [ [http://rumbletum.org/Asia/Tajikistan/Tajikistan+(general)/_1514900_Ghafurov.html#themap Geographic information on Google Earth] ]

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