page_title: Dushanbe
section_title: International relations
hierarchical_section_title: Dushanbe / International relations
caption_attribution_description: English: Palace of Unity, (Vahdat Palace, Tajik: Кохи Ваҳдат/Kokhi Vahdat/کاخ وحدت). 107, Rudaki Avenue, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. (Coords: 38.59, 68.7858). It is the headquarters of the ruling People's Democratic Party and is also used to host international conferences.
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.
caption: The Palace of Unity (Vahdat Palace).
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