Dushanbe, briefly known as Stalinabad a few decades earlier-that must have made the local people happy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
Examples of this kind of national restoration of local names are the renaming of Stalinabad already mentioned and the renaming of the capital of Kyrgyzstan. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
Stalinabad, the capital of Tadzhik Republic, did regain its original Tadzhik name of Dushanbe, but here the change was back to the old name of a caravan stop and had nothing to do with tsarist Russia. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
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