Dushanbe Dushanbe Dushanbe (, ) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. Dushanbe means "Monday" in the Tajik language. It was named this way because it grew from a village that originally had a popular market on Mondays. , Dushanbe had a population of 802,700. Historically a small village, Dushanbe was made the capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (, "Dyushambe"), and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad (, "Stalinobod)" which was named after Joseph Stalin. Situated at the confluence of two rivers, Varzob and Kofarnihon,
North Caucasian Soviet Republic Central Executive Committee abolished the republic. North Caucasian Soviet Republic North Caucasian Soviet Republic (, "Severo-Kavkazskaya Sovetskaya Respublika") (July 7–December, 1918) was a territory in the North Caucasus established to consolidate Soviet power during the Russian Civil War. A republic of the Russian SFSR, it was created by merging the Kuban-Black Sea Soviet Republic, the Stavropol Soviet Republic, and the Terek Soviet Republic. Its capital was Yekaterinodar; however, on August 17, 1918 Yekaterinodar was taken by Denikin's Volunteer Army, and the capital was moved to Pyatigorsk. By the end of 1918, when the majority of the republic's territory was captured