Russians in Tajikistan
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Russians in Tajikistan are a minority ethnic group numbering about 29,000 individuals as of 2020 Census, representing 0.3% of the population.[1] In 1989 census, ethnic Russians made up 7.6% of the population.[2] The population of ethnic Russians in Tajikistan is rapidly declining due to low fertility rates and emigration.
Distribution
[edit]Most ethnic Russians reside in the capital city of Dushanbe. 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 Persian (Tajik) are Indo-European languages, the former is a Slavic language and the latter belongs to the Indo-Iranian language family.
Religion
[edit]Russians in Tajikistan are mostly followers of the Russian Orthodox Church, under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Dushanbe and Tajikistan.
Notable Russians in Tajikistan
[edit]Political figures
[edit]- Yuri Ponosov, First Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan from 1996 to 1998[3]
- Alexander Shishlyannikov, the first Minister of Defence of Tajikistan
- Georgy Koshlakov, head of the Department of Economics and Management at the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University
Sportspeople
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Dissemination of the Republic of Tajikistan population and housing census data 2020" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-09-16.
- ↑ 2.^ 55.^ Tajikistan - Ethnic Groups. Source: U.S. Library of Congress
- ↑ "ПОНОСОВ Юрий Филимонович | ЦентрАзия".
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