Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
Gorno-Badakhshan was created in January 1925. It was attached to the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, after the republic's creation in 1929, as the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (an autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union). During the 1950s, the native inhabitants of Gorno-Badakhshan, including many ethnic Pamiris, were forcibly relocated to southwestern Tajikistan. Gorno-Badakhshan absorbed some of the territory of the Gharm Oblast when that territory was dissolved in 1955.