Stalinabad

/ stəlinaˈbat /

noun

1. the former name (1929–61) of Dushanbe

Example Sentences

Beginning in the 1930s, the Soviets sent architects to transform its scattering of mud-brick structures into a metropolis whose official name, for decades, would be Stalinabad.

From New York Times

Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich was born in the Soviet city of Stalinabad — now Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan — on Sept. 26, 1932.

From Washington Post

Soviet cities such as Stalinabad and Stalingrad had been renamed in the early 1960s and little emphasis was placed on his personal role in the victory of 1945.

From BBC

Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino and Stalinabad and Stalinogrosk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Powerful Persian-language stations in Stalinabad, Baku, Tashkent and Yerevan blast away at him daily.

From Time Magazine Archive