School for Deaf and Mute (Dushanbe) School for Deaf and Mute (Dushanbe) The School for Deaf and Mute (Tajik: Мактаби кару гунгхо / Maktabi karu gungho) is a special art and social sciences school in Dushanbe for students with limited hearing and speaking ability. It was founded on January 17, 1975 when Tajikistan was apart of the Soviet Union. It is currently located on 44 Karaboyev Street, in Dushanbe. The school has 13 classrooms, a library, the director's office, offices for the director's assistants, and a computer lab. There are 15 teachers and a student body of 135. The school's current director is Rafik S. H.
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic created at the same time within the predominantly Turkic Uzbek SSR as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik ASSR) – one rank below a Soviet Socialist Republic in USSR geopolitical hierarchy. The new autonomous republic included what had been eastern Bukhara and had a population of about 740,000, out of a total population of nearly 5 million in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic as a whole. Its capital was established in Dyushambe, which had been a village of 3,000 in 1920. In December 1929, Tajik ASSR was detached from the Uzbek SSR and given full status as a Soviet Socialist