History of the Jews in Tajikistan of Jews from neighboring Uzbekistan. Most Jews settled in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where they opened the Dushanbe synagogue. During World War II, a second wave of Ashkenazic Jews migrated to Tajikistan. In the Soviet Union, including Tajikistan, beginning in the 1970s, Jews who were able, began to emigrate to Israel, as well as to the United States. By the late 1980s, many of Tajikistan's Jews had left. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajikistan gained independence and the country fell into a state of civil war between the government and Islamist forces. Continuous military conflict
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic emphasized. The capital city was Cheboksary. Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; ) was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian SFSR, which itself was within the Soviet Union. It occupied about along the east bank of the Volga River, about west of the river's confluence with the Kama River and some east of Moscow. The successor of the Chuvash Autonomous Oblast, the Chuvash ASSR was formed in 1925. It declared its sovereignty within the Soviet Union in 1990 as the Chuvash Republic (still within Russia). Its primary economic activities were agricultural. rain