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List Of Tajik People
This is a list of notable people from the Tajik ethnic group. {{Dynamic list Politics * Ahmed Shah Massoud, commander and mujahideen in Afghanistan, assassinated by al Qaeda * Rustam Emomali, Mayor of Dushanbe and the eldest son of president Emomali Rahmon * Emomali Rahmon, current President of Tajikistan *Rahmon Nabiyev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan and two time President of Tajikistan * Jamshed Karimov, former Prime Minister of Tajikistan and a cousin of former President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov *Kokhir Rasulzoda, current Prime Minister of Tajikistan Military *Sherali Mirzo, Minister of Defense since November 2013 *Emomali Sobirzoda, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan * Negmatullo Kurbanov, Commanding Officer of the Tajik Internal Troops * Abduhalim Nazarzoda, former Deputy Minister of Defense *Latif Fayziyev, Commander of the Tajik Mobile Forces * Saimumin Yatimov, Chairman of the State Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tajiks
Tajiks ( fa, تاجيک، تاجک, ''Tājīk, Tājek''; tg, Тоҷик) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan, and the second-largest in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. They speak varieties of Persian, a Western Iranian language. In Tajikistan, since the 1939 Soviet census, its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks. In China, the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups, the Tajiks of Xinjiang, who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages. In Afghanistan, the Pamiris are counted as a separate ethnic group. As a self-designation, the literary New Persian term ''Tajik'', which originally had some previous pejorative usage as a label for eastern Persians or Iranians, has become acceptable during the last several decades, particularly as a result of Soviet administration in Central Asia. Alternative names for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Forces Of The Republic Of Tajikistan
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Coach (sports)
A sports coach is a person coaching in sport, involved in the direction, instruction and training of a sports team or athlete. History The original sense of the word ''coach'' is that of a horse-drawn carriage, deriving ultimately from the Hungarian city of Kocs where such vehicles were first made. Students at the University of Oxford in the early nineteenth century used the slang word to refer to a private tutor who would drive a less able student through his examinations just like horse driving. Britain took the lead in upgrading the status of sports in the 19th century. For sports to become professionalized, "coacher" had to become established. It gradually professionalized in the Victorian era and the role was well established by 1914. In the First World War, military units sought out the coaches to supervise physical conditioning and develop morale-building teams. Effectiveness John Wooden had a philosophy of coaching that encouraged planning, organization, and understa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharif Nazarov
Sharif Nazarov (born February 2, 1946, Tajikistan) is Tajikistani Association football, football coach (sports), coach. Managing career As one of the most successful coaches from Tajikistan, he won the Tajik League twice with SKA-Pamir Dushanbe in 1992 and 1995; and with Varzob Dushanbe in 1999 and 2000. He won the Tajik Cup on three occasions SKA-Pamir Dushanbe in 1992, Varzob Dushanbe in 1999 and ''FC Aviator'' in 2004. Nazarov has also been the most successful head coach for the Tajikistan national football team, as he led the national team to a third-place finish at the 1993 ECO Cup and won the 2006 AFC Challenge Cup. Nazarov was appointed as the manager of Khayr Vahdat FK, Khayr Vahdat on 17 March 2016. Honours Manager ;Pamir * Tajik League (1): 1992 * Tajik Cup (1): 1992 * ECO Cup semi-finals/3rd place: 1993 ;Varzob * Tajik League (3): 1998, 1999, 2000 * Tajik Cup (2): 1999, 2004 ;National * AFC Challenge Cup champion: 2006 Individual * Merited Coach of USSR * Merited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulmurod Khalimov
Gulmurod Salimovich Khalimov ( tg, Гулмурод Салимович Ҳалимов) (1975–2017) was a Tajik and Islamist military commander. He was a lieutenant-colonel and commander of the police special forces of the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan until 2015, when he defected to the Islamic State. In September 2016, he was reported to have been appointed as the minister of war of IS in place of Abu Omar al-Shishani; his appointment had not been announced by IS for fears that he might be targeted in airstrikes by the anti-IS coalition. On 8 September 2017, Khalimov was allegedly killed during a Russian airstrike near Deir ez-Zor, Syria. However, the Tajik government, United Nations, and the United States believed that he was still alive by 2019, though his exact fate remained disputed. By 2020, Islamist militants claimed he had died at some point; this source was considered unreliable by the Tajik government. Regardless, the United States had removed Khalimov from their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Internal Affairs (Tajikistan)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs, also called the Ministry of the Interior, abbreviated VKD, is the interior ministry of the government of Tajikistan. It oversees the Presidential National Guard and the Internal Troops. Since 2012, the Minister of Internal Affairs has been Lieutenant General Ramazon Rahimov. He is responsible for youth crime prevention and working to lower youth crime rates in the country. The law "On Police" was adopted on 7 April 2004 by the Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan to define the duties of the interior ministry. History The first Tajik militia was founded on 7 December 1924, when the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Tajik Autonomous Republic was formed. A week later on 14 December, Abdullo Yarmukhamedov was appointed the first People's Commissar for Internal Affairs. On 5 February 1925, thirty-there NKVD officers were transferred from the Uzbek capital to Dushanbe, where they would be stationed permanently as part of the NKVD division in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramazon Rahimov
Colonel General Ramazon Hamroevich Rahimov (; born 25 April 1960), also known as Ramazon Hamro Rahimzoda, is a Tajikistani politician. He was appointed to the position of Minister of Internal Affairs in 2012. Career Rahimov joined the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1983, and was stationed in Kulob and Leningrad (today Mu'minobod). In 1995, he graduated from the Dushanbe Higher School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was promoted through the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan, and was appointed as the Minister of Internal Affairs on 5 January 2012. He said that one of his goals is to lower youth crime rates. In 2012 he met with his Chinese counterpart Meng Jianzhu, and the two sides discussed the issue of drug smuggling and signed a memorandum regarding cooperation in the border area. Personal life Rahimov is said to be physically fit and good at chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Committee For National Security (Tajikistan)
The State Committee for National Security (SCNS; tg, Кумитаи давлатии амнияти миллӣ, Kumitai Davlatii Amniyati Millī; russian: Государственный комитет национальной безопасности) is the principal national security and intelligence agency of Tajikistan. Its main responsibilities include internal and border security, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, fighting organized crime, and surveillance. The chairman of the committee and all of his deputies are appointed by and answerable to the president of Tajikistan. Colonel General Saimumin Yatimov has served as the SCNS chairman since September 2, 2010. The SCNS is governed by the Law About National Security Bodies of the Republic of Tajikistan. Its activity is formally overseen by the Office of the Prosecutor General, although in practice the external oversight of the SCNS is virtually non-existent. History The SCNS is the Tajik success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saimumin Yatimov
Saimumin Sattorovich Yatimov ( tg, Саймумин Сатторович Ятимов; born 23 July 1955) is a senior government official in Tajikistan who has led the country's State Committee for National Security since September 2010. He holds the rank of lieutenant general and is among the 10 most influential individuals in Tajikistan. Early life and education Yatimov was born in what is now Farkhor district in Tajikistan's southern Khatlon province. In 1976, he graduated from the State Pedagogical Institute in Kulob, Khatlon province, with a specialist degree in Tajik language and literature. Following the graduation, he worked as a Tajik language teacher in secondary schools in Farkhor district. From 1977 to 1979, Yatimov served in the Soviet army in Kaunas, Lithuania. After competing the mandatory military service, he returned to Farkhor and worked as a secondary school teacher until 1980. In 2001, Yatimov defended his dissertation, Foreign Policies of the Islamic R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tajik Mobile Forces
The Mobile Forces ( tg, Қӯшунҳои Зудамали) are the paratroopers of the armed forces of Tajikistan. They are similar to the Russian Airborne Troops, whom they often train with. The Mobile Forces act as an elite special forces unit, subservient to the Defense Ministry and separate from the ground forces. Although they are called paratroopers, the Mobile Forces often deployed out of helicopters, as the Tajik Air Force has few fixed wing aircraft. History On 2 August 1997, the 7th Airborne Assault Battalion was formed. It was the first airborne brigade to be formed in the country. About half of the brigade's officer corps, served during the Tajikistani Civil War. In September 2003, the Mobile Forces were created. It was formed from all the airborne units (including the battalion), as well as the special forces, mountain rifle units and some other subunits. On 4 August 2007, the Ministry of Defence created a Paratroopers' Day to celebrate the Mobile Forces. Training a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latif Fayziyev
Lieutenant General Latif Mirzoevich Fayziyev ( tg, Латиф Мирзоевич Файзиев), also known by his persianized name Latifjon Mirzo Faizizoda, is a lieutenant general in the armed forces of Tajikistan. From 2006 to 2014, he was the chief of the Tajik Mobile Forces. He is currently a Ministry of Defense Advisor (MoDA) and commander of the Dushanbe Military Garrison. Career After graduation in 1974, he worked in various repair shops in Samarkand. In 1979, he graduated from the Samarkand Higher Military Automobile Command School of the Soviet Army. Throughout the decade, he served in the Central Asian Military District and the limited contingent of the Soviet Army in Afghanistan. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the DOSAAF Committee in Leninabad beginning in the early 90s. He served as Deputy Minister of Defence for logistics from 1997 to 2006. He was appointed to the post of Commander of Mobile Troops in 2006. During his tenure, he oversaw a drill with m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
