page_title: Dushanbe
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Dushanbe / Education
caption_attribution_description: National State University of Tajikistan
context_page_description: Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. As of January 2020, Dushanbe had a population of 863,400. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad, after Joseph Stalin.
  In ancient times, what is now or is close to modern Dushanbe was settled by various empires and peoples, including Mousterian tool-users, various neolithic cultures, the Achaemenid Empire, Greco-Bactria, the Kushan Empire, and the Hephalites. In the Middle Ages, more settlements began near modern-day Dushanbe such as Hulbuk and its famous palace. From the 17th century to the early 20th, Dushanbe began to grow into a market village controlled at times by the Beg of Hisor, Balkh, and finally Bukhara. Soon after the Russian invasion in 1922, the town was made the capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924, which commenced Dushanbe's development and rapid population growth that continued until the Tajik Civil War. After the war, the city became capital of an independent Tajikistan and continued its growth and development into a modern city.
context_section_description: A number of educational facilities are based in Dushanbe:
  Tajik National University
  Agricultural University of Tajikistan
  Tajik State Medical University
  Tajikistan State University of Law, Business, & Politics
  Russian-Tajik Slavonic University
  Dushanbe International School
caption: Tajik State National University.
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