http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/5510/11349923nm5.jpg

Monument of Ismail Samani
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3551/67195338dg1.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9182/89544198yl5.jpg

Transportation
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5640/70172839bn7.jpg

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/452/busno3jj3.jpg

Parliament
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/4842/10zo7.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7818/75704033ih4.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8420/11056583rn0.jpg

Tajikistan Hotel
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/813/11gb0.jpg

the city at winter
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1945/13ik9.jpg

the city at summer
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/9833/14sf8.jpg


http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/1919/58556614ze4.jpg

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/3954/17mf3.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3703/18nd3.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6382/22sv8.jpg

Airport
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7220/airport2mx8.jpg

Ayni opera ballet house
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4475/aynioperaballethousero8.jpg

Dushanbe National Museum
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/3927/dushanbenationalmuseumkd4.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9054/dushanbenationalmusseumjj2.jpg

Ferdowsi library
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/4443/ferdowsilibraryle7.jpg

Dushanbe at night
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5797/atnightqr9.jpg

Lenin Sq.
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8655/leninsqoj4.jpg

Opera Theatre
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6845/operatheatere2oo4.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1793/operatheaterxw4.jpg

Train Station
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3701/trainstationzm5.jpg

Rudaki St.
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/503/leninstin9.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/116/rudakistgc9.jpg

Nice thread, a place we rarely hear about

Yep, thanks for let us knowing about this remote place :)

Remote, but it think most pics are very old, you see cars on the road dating from the seventies/early eighties.

brilliant pictures!! i've never heard of this place before but it looks very pleasant

Thanks for the pics. This used to be a partly persian-speaking country, but almost all signs on the pictures above have chyrillic letters. The Soviet union did wipe that country's heritage pretty bad.

Remote, but it think most pics are very old, you see cars on the road dating from the seventies/early eighties.

that's what they still drive in there today
this is a third world country they don't have money for new cars.

hm...a soviet architecture is clearly visible, and it's a bit out of date, but it looks like a nice and quiet city to live in ;)

Excellent collection of photos :okay:

Thanks for the pics. This used to be a partly persian-speaking country, but almost all signs on the pictures above have chyrillic letters. The Soviet union did wipe that country's heritage pretty bad.

They use the cyrillic alphabet, but the language still remains Persian in character - the Soviets simply changed the alphabet used, and added Russian technical terms, etc., but there has been talk of reverting to an Arabic-based alphabet.

Remote, but it think most pics are very old, you see cars on the road dating from the seventies/early eighties.

The cars are from late 80's Soviet Union. Except one on this pic http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9054/dushanbenationalmusseumjj2.jpg which means that at least this particular pic is post 1990. I would say summer of 1995