Gulnazar Keldi ( tg, Гулназар Келдӣ; 20 September 1945 – 13 August 2020) was a

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from

Dardar Dardar ( tg, Дардар, ''Dardar'') is a village and jamoat in Ayni District in Sughd Region in north-west Tajikistan, not far from the border with Uzbekistan. It is situated on the northern bank of the Zeravshan, along Highway A377, to the no ...

and editor of the publication '' Adabiyet va sanat'' (''Literature and Art''). Keldi wrote the lyrics of "

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", the

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. He died from

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during the

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.Даргузашти муаллифи суруди миллӣ Гулназар Келдӣ дар бемористон

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