Karatag (city)

Karatag was allegedly founded in the first quarter of the 18th century. It was founded by a native of the village of Dahbid (not far from Samarkand ), a Sufi from the Order of Naqshbandiy, Ishan Mahmad-Rizo-Khoja , who settled on the bank of Karatagdarya with several students. On the grave of this Muslim, one can find a five-letter Farsi with a chronogram testifying to the time of the founding of the city. Karatag has become a major center of craft economy with more than 30 specializations. For a long time it is famous for its steel products (blades, knives, etc.), leather products ^[1] . He conducted active trade with India. In political and administrative terms, until 1870 the city ​​was a center of independent clan ownership. In 1870, Karatag was forced to submit to the Bukhara emirate, which in turn had already accepted the protectorate of the Russian Empire. In 1907, the city ​​was destroyed by a strong earthquake. Then about 12,000 people lived in it. It was soon rebuilt ^[2] . Since 1920 - as part of the Tajik SSR. The Russian philologist L. V. Uspenskaya , who studied the problems of the origin of the inhabitants of Karatag, found that the language of most of its inhabitants is a variant of the Samarkand dialect of the Tajik language, which has adopted some local elements ^[3] .

Also, in the village of Karatag, Stella was installed to commander Zabronov and the Red Army wars, who fell in the battles for the establishment of Soviet power in Tajikistan in the period 1922 - 1926.

In 2015, Gafur Shermatov, military historian of the 201st motorized rifle Gatchinsky twice the Red Banner Russian Division in the Republic of Tajikistan, led the restoration of the historical monument. Thanks to the cooperation of local authorities and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Tajikistan and local activists and volunteers, Stella was successfully restored and a grand opening was held a month later.

• Sadullaev, Mullodzhan (1903-1976) - Tajik Soviet statesman.
• Mirzo Tursunzade (1911-1977) - Tajik Soviet poet. People's poet of the Tajik SSR (1961). Hero of Socialist Labor (1967). Laureate of the Lenin (1960) and Stalin Prize of the second degree (1948). ^[four]