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Dushanbe (Душанбе), population 582,400 ( 1991), is the capital of Tajikistan.
The city served as the headquarters for Ibrahim Bek , a Tajik leader who fought the Bolsheviks. From 1929, when the city became the capital of the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic, to 1961, it was known as Stalinabad, after Joseph Stalin. A university and the Tajik Academy of Sciences are in the city.