Dushanbe The Soviets transformed the area into a centre for cotton and silk production, and tens of thousands of people relocated to the city. The population also increased with thousands of Tajiks migrating to Tajikistan following the transfer of Bukhara and Samarkand to the Uzbek SSR as part of national delimitation in Central Asia. On 10 November 1961, Stalinabad was renamed Dushanbe, the name it retains to this day. Severe rioting occurred in February 1990, after it was rumored that the Soviet government planned to relocate tens of thousands of Armenian refugees to Tajikistan. The Dushanbe riots were primarily fueled by
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, led by a chairman, was the de jure leader office of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic between 1938 and 1990. It was elected by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The office was created as a replacement for the office of Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets. Since the Russian SFSR enjoyed only limited autonomy within the Soviet Union until late into the perestroika