Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( Tajik ASSR; . Tajik Ҷумҳурияти Сӯсиолистии Шӯравии Мухтори Тоҷикистон Çumhūrijati Sūsiolistiji Şūraviji Muxtori Toçikston ) was an autonomous republic within the Uzbek SSR of the Soviet Union.

In October 1924, the three previously existing regional units in Central Asia ( Turkestan ASSR, People's Republic of Bukhara and Khorezm People's Republic ) were distributed into five units based on ethnic principles through a series of acts. Thus, the Uzbek SSR, the Turkmen SSR, the Tajik ASSR created (within the Uzbek SSR), the Kyrgyz Autonomous Oblast ( province as the RSFSR ) and the Autonomous Oblast Karakalpakische ( as a province of the Kazakh ASSR ).

The capital of the Tajik ASSR was Dyushambe (now Dushanbe). In October 1929, the Tajik ASSR was transformed into a full-fledged Soviet Socialist Republic, the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic converted, that in addition the Khojent region (now Sughd Province in northern Tajikistan) absorbed from the Uzbek SSR.