Tajikistan. The country of Islam, Mountains and Rivers. Romans Arzjancevs

      Today I will recall some things that can give more knowledge about the Tajikistan. It is time to speak about the capital of one of the Central Asia’s countries – Dushanbe. According to some information sources the population of this city in 2014 was780 000 residents so we can say that is not so largely populated city comparing to other Asian capitals in Muslim countries. But how it usually is in all Muslim countries there are many bazaars and shops but of course not like in the Europe or America. Only in capital you can find few supermarkets and big shops. Other interesting place in Dushanbe is the zoo which was founded in 1960 and is located in the capital’s centre near the river Luchob. The zoo owns approximately 600 animals from various continents but mainly from Asia and Africa. During the civil war from 1991—1997 zoo lost many animals.

      1 May, 2015, Friday

      Just a few minutes ago I decided to write about the national clothes of Tajikistan. Yes of course it is climate and other things that have something to do with national garments. People often wear summer dresses, shirts and other light summer clothes styled with sandals. But one other thing was very interesting to notice, it is the style that is commonly seen in different capitals of Central Asia republics. In Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan as well as in Tashkent and Ashgabat you can find people wearing very high quality clothes and formal suits. And you know how the weather is in the East and you can see many, many shops, banks and other places where the employees should wear official suits, which is hard in the summer time when the sun in up for long time and the weather is hot already in the early morning. Although comparing these other countries and their capitals with Tajikistan situation may differ. Not crucially different but little bit more casual because the economic situation of the Tajikistan’s cities is not that developed as in neighbour counties. However the situation has improved over the past years and what we can see now is far better than before. Dushanbe city tries to provide residents with more opportunities and that is reason why people from other districts are moving closer to the capital. If we take a look on other districts, provincial cities and poorly populated settlements the view is not so beautiful. Mountain areas are the poorest places in Tajikistan. What is occupation of people who live there? For example people of these mountain villages work in farms, rear animals such as goats, lambs and sheep. Besides this inhabitants of this isolated villages also cultivate the most necessary food products such as fruits and vegetables, wheat for preparation of bread also watermelons, melons, apricots, plums and the traditional food of Islamic countries – dates. Unfortunately not all of population has access to certain foods necessary of daily meals. This is a major problem. Tajikistan has a border with not so safe country namely Afghanistan. According to statistics official incomes of people who live near to the boarder are higher than in rest of the country. This is because many of those people are drug dealers and sell very strong drugs produced from flowers and plants that grow in these areas in South Tajikistan. Drugs are exported from Tajikistan to Afghanistan and other countries of Central Asia and then to Europe. That means that the population of south districts cannot survive with incomes that are provided by state government and people are forced to search for other options. This allows for people who live under the poverty line to double their income by production and export of drugs. Another interesting fact to know is that Tajiks are healthiest nation namely very low percentage of people have problems with health maybe only heart deceases.