Qadriddin Aslonov ( tg, Қадриддин Аслонов), also spelled Kadriddin Aslonov (29 May 1947 in

Rasht District ) ( tg, Ноҳияи Рашт) , image_map = Location of Rasht District in Tajikistan.png , mapsize = , map_caption = Location of the district in Tajikistan , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision ...

Tajik SSR The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic,, ''Çumhuriji Şūraviji Sotsialistiji Toçikiston''; russian: Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

_{(now Tajikistan

Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
)} – November 1992) was acting

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from 31 August to 23 September 1991. When his predecessor

Qahhor Mahkamov Qahhor Mahkamov (russian: Кахар Махкамов, tg, Қаҳҳор Маҳкамов; alternative spelling Kahar Mahkamov; 16 April 1932 – 8 June 2016) was a Tajiks, Tajik politician who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of T ...

resigned as the

, Aslonov was elected his temporary successor in the capacity as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet. One of Aslonov's first actions as leader was to sign an edict calling for the cessation of all activities of the Communist Party on the territory of Tajikistan and the nationalization of the party's property. The Congress of the

Communist Party of Tajikistan The Communist Party of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҳизби Коммунистии Тоҷикистон, ''Hizbi Kommunistiyi Tojikiston''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Таджикистана) is a communist party in Tajikistan ...

subsequently convened in the second half of September 1991 to announce the dissolution of the

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. He also signed a decree which established 9 September as

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. On September 20, 1991, Aslonov resigned from the Tajik Communist Party as well as from its Politburo. On September 23, conservative forces in the Tajik government ousted Aslonov. First Party Secretary

Rahmon Nabiyev Rahmon Nabiyevich Nabiyev, also spelled Rakhmon Nabiev ( tg, Раҳмон Набиев; russian: Рахмон Набиевич Набиев), (5 October 1930 – 11 April 1993) was a Tajik politician who served as the First Secretary of the Comm ...

was installed as president, and a state of emergency was declared the same day. A year later, during the initial stages of the

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that engulfed the country after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Aslonov was reported missing in November 1992. According to a source, he was killed by militants of the pro-government

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