Tajik SSR Application

Capital
and largest city
Dushanbe
38°33′N 68°48′E

Official languages
Tajik, Russian

Official religion
State atheism

Ethnic groups
• 71% Tajiks
• 23% Russians
• 6% others

Government
• President
• Vice-president
Unitary one-party Marxist-
Leninist socialist republic
Danil Radbayev
Rasuldaza Manom

Distribution of Powers
Executive, legislative, judicial

Procedures of Government
Democratic elections with its candidates selected by the Communist Party

Legislature
• Upper house
• Lower house
Tajikistani Supreme Soviet
Regional Soviet
People's Soviet

Population
• Total
• Density
2015 census
8,736,953
61.05/km²

GDP
• Total
• Per capita
2015 census
US$55.6 billion
US$6,361.22

Main imports
Gas, oil, automobiles, construction materials, consumer goods, electronics

Main exports
Construction equipment, cotton, construction materials, aluminium, fruits, electricity, textiles

Currency
Tajikistani ruble

Military
• Branches

• Active personnel
• Reserve personnel
TJPA Ground Force, TJPA Navy, TJPA Air Force, Tajikistani People's Police
Police not included, 102,400
Police not included, 101,700

History
The territory that now constitutes Tajikistan was previously home to several ancient cultures, including the city of Sarazm of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilisation, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Islam. The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, Mongol Empire, Timurid dynasty, the Russian Empire, and subsequently the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's modern borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929.

On 9 September 1991, Tajikistan became an independent sovereign nation when the Soviet Union disintegrated, yet remained as a Soviet Marxist-Leninist state. A civil war was fought almost immediately after independence, lasting from 1992 to 1997. Since the end of the war, newly established political stability and reformations within the economic and political system as well as foreign aid have allowed the country's economy to grow. Like all other Central Asian neighbouring states, the country has been criticised by a number of non-governmental organizations for authoritarian leadership, prohibition of religious freedom, and claimed violations of human rights. The Soviet Tajikistani Government reasons that it needs to defend the integrity of the workers' peasants' state.