Tursunzoda

Coordinates: 38°30′39″N 68°13′49″E / 38.51083°N 68.23028°E / 38.51083; 68.23028
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Tursunzoda
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Websitehttp://regar.tj

Tursunzoda (

Hisor), near the border with Uzbekistan. It is near several rivers, Shirkent and Karatag immediately to the west and east of the city, and Kofarnihon further east. Its population is estimated at 55,700 for the city proper and 298,800 for the city with the outlying communities (2020).[1]
Its population was given as 40,600 in the 1989 census, falling to 39,000 in 2000, and estimated at 37,000 in 2006.

The city has two television stations, TV-REGAR and TV-TADAZ, two newspapers, Aluminiy Tojikiston and Regar, and a radio station.

Tursunzoda is home to football club Regar-TadAZ Tursunzoda.

History

Sign celebrating 70 years of the city
Tursunzoda Central Marketplace

Tursunzoda was originally the village of Regar, meaning "a town on sand". In 1978, the town and with it the whole district were renamed in honor of the Tajik national poet,

hydroelectric power station on the river Vakhsh
made the city a good location for industry, and besides the aluminium plant, there are also china, brick, cable, and cotton cleaning plants.

Subdivisions

Before ca. 2018, Tursunzoda was the seat of Tursunzoda District, which covered the rural part of the present city of Tursunzoda.[4] The city of Tursunzoda covers Tursunzoda proper and nine jamoats.[5] These are as follows:[6]

Jamoat Population (Jan. 2015)[6]
Navobod 36,979
Pakhtaobod 9,690
Qaratogh 37,948
Rabot 13,053
Jura Rahmonov 33,405
Regar 19,080
Seshanbe 15,197
10-Solagii Istiqloliyat 29,492
Tursun Tuychiev 23,911

Aluminium plant

The TALCO plant in Tursunzoda

The Tajik aluminium smelting plant,

TadAZ, in Tursunzoda, is the largest aluminium manufacturing plant in Central Asia, and possibly the world, and Tajikistan's chief industrial asset. The country has no native aluminium ore, so the raw material for the plant has to be imported. Construction of the plant proper began in 1972, and the first pouring of aluminium took place on March 31, 1975. It consumes 40% of the country's electrical power, and a 2002 study found it responsible for notable fluorine
water pollution in the region and air pollution.

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  2. ^ "КОНСТИТУЦИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ТАДЖИКИСТАН". prokuratura.tj. Parliament of Tajikistan. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. ^ Agriculture in Tajikistan, statistical yearbook, Dushanbe, 2007, p. 87.
  4. ^ "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2015" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Regions of the Republic of Tajikistan 2017" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. pp. 15–21. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  6. ^ a b Jamoat-level basic indicators, United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 8 October 2020

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