República Socialista Soviética de Tayikistán
Upon its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajikistan retained the state anthem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic , lyrics and all, as its national anthem for a time before replacing the lyrics in 1994. This was in contrast to other former Soviet states like Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan that appropriated their old Soviet-era regional anthems as national ones but did so without the Soviet lyrics.