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

are a minority ethnic group numbering 68,200 individuals as of 2000 Census, representing 1.1% of the population. In 1989, ethnic Russians made up 7.6% of the population. The population of ethnic Russians in Tajikistan is rapidly declining due to low fertility rates and emigration. Most ethnic Russians reside in the capital city of

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...

. Regardless of this situation, Russian is provided with the status of a co-official language with Tajik and a status of a " language of interethnic communication", and since Soviet times remains widely used on many levels of the society and the state. Both Russian and Tajik are

Indo-European languages The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

, the former is a

Slavic language The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavs, Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic language, Proto ...

& the latter belongs to Indo-Iranian language family.

Russians in Tajikistan are mostly followers of the

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, under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the ''Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Dushanbe and Tajikistan''. Many ethnic

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

men have also married and mixed with Tajik women.

Notable Russians in Tajikistan

Political figures

Yuri Ponosov Yuri Filimonovich Ponosov ( Tajik/Russian: Юрий Филимонович Поносов; born 1941) is a Tajikistani of Russian descent and formerly Soviet politician. Early life and education Ponosov was born to a working-class family in the ...

, First Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan from 1996-1998 *

Alexander Shishlyannikov Major General Alexander Vladimirovich Shishlyannikov () is a Tajik military officer and the first Minister of Defence of Tajikistan, serving from 1993 to 1995. He is an ethnic Russian. Biography Soviet Army Alexander Shishlyannikov was born ...

, the first Minister of Defence of Tajikistan

Sportspeople

Vladislava Ovcharenko Vladislava Ovcharenko (born 18 December 1986, in Dushanbe) is a Tajikistani track and field sprinter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an int ...

* Kristina Pronzhenko * Andrei Drygin *

Yuri Lobanov Yuri Lobanov (sometimes listed as Yuriy Lobanov, 29 September 1952 – 1 May 2017) was a Soviet-born Tajikistani sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won tw ...

* Sergey Zabavsky * Katerina Izmailova *

Sergey Babikov Sergey Babikov is a Tajikistani sport shooter, born in Dushanbe, who competes in the men's 10 metre air pistol. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished Finished may refer to: * ''Finished'' (novel), a 1917 novel by H. Rider Haggard * ''Finish ...

* Lidiya Karamchakova * Natalia Ivanova * Galina Mityaeva *

Anastasiya Tyurina Anastasiya Tyurina (born 27 September 2001) is a Tajikistani swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing 73rd with a time of 31.15 seconds and failing to advance out of the heats. In 2 ...

References

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Notable Russians in Tajikistan

Political figures

Sportspeople

See also

References