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  • Geological Mapping of the Pamir Knot

    Morning begins with a hammer tap that echoes off slate and snow. In the upper valleys of Gorno-Badakhshan, light slides down ridges, and the rocks start to talk: thin beds ringing like glass, thick ones giving a dull thud. A compass-clinometer, a dog-eared notebook, and a handful of colored pencils are the tools of the

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  • Remoteness vs Connectivity: Roads in High Tajikistan

    At the first light of dawn, the Pamir Highway seems almost empty- just a thin ribbon of asphalt unspooling through rock and sky. A truck grinds up a long incline, leaving a wake of dust and echoes, and for a brief moment the only sound is the wind. From here, where the road cleaves the

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  • Pistachio Forests in Decline: Cultural Landscapes Vanishing

    In valleys of southern Tajikistan, slopes once draped in pistachio and almond trees whisper of a vanished abundance. Now, the forests appear thinner, patchy, edged by bare rock and scrub. To walk these slopes is to walk memory and erosion together. The pistachio forest is not simply ecological, it is a cultural landscape, a human-shaped

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  • Cotton Geography: How White Gold Reshaped Valleys

    In the cotton plains of southern Tajikistan, geography has been rewritten not by tectonic forces, but by canals. Rivers have been bent, soils disciplined, and valleys turned into lattices of irrigated furrows. Cotton called as “white gold” is more than a crop here. It is a landscape-making force that has shaped not only economic patterns

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  • Mapping Tajikistan’s Deserts: The Southern Steppe as Living Frontier

    The southern edges of Tajikistan stretch into color: ochre and lavender dusts, pale grasses, scattered shrubs, and an urge toward boundary. The terrain here is not full desert like the Sahara, but a semi-arid steppe pushed by climate, water limits, and human need. To walk across it is to sense land doing what land does:

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  • Soils, Agriculture, Tajikistan, Erosion, Salinity, Farming, Land Management, Central Asia

    The rivers of Tajikistan move fast. Snowmelt pours from glaciers, tumbling through gorges, twisting around boulders, white spray catching the light. For centuries these waters carved valleys, nourished fields, and gave rhythm to life. Today, they carry another kind of power: electricity. Hydropower plants line the Vakhsh and other rivers, their dams rising like walls

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  • The Ozone Layer Over Tajikistan: Scientific Warnings

    The sky above Dushanbe looks impossibly clear on a crisp autumn morning. From the city’s edges, the blue stretches wide, broken only by the snowy ridges of the Gissar Range. To most people, the sky is simply background—a canvas for weather, birds, or airplanes. But for scientists at the Academy of Sciences, it is a

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  • Earthquakes in the Pamirs: Living on Shifting Ground

    The ground never quite sleeps in the Pamirs. Beneath the high ridges and folded valleys, plates press, faults slip, and tremors ripple through villages clinging to slopes. Earthquakes here are not abstract- they are geography in motion, lived in daily cracks, remembered in walls that lean, in stories passed down after each shaking night. To

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  • Cotton vs Wheat: Balancing Export and Bread

    In the irrigated valleys of southern Tajikistan, late summer means the cotton fields turn white. Bolls crack open in the heat, revealing the soft fiber that once earned this region the name “white gold.” The crop’s geometry is clear from above: rectangular plots, evenly furrowed, stretching toward the horizon. Alongside them, though, another geometry is

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  • Glacier Retreat Trends

    On a clear summer morning in the Pamirs, the first light catches the crest of Ismoil Somoni Peak, casting shadows that stretch across the Fedchenko Glacier. It is a scene at once timeless and fragile. The glacier—one of the largest outside the polar regions—has for generations fed the rivers that make Tajikistan a land of

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Geographical Society of Tajikistan
Founded to advance the study and appreciation of Tajikistan’s diverse landscapes, the Geographical Society of Tajikistan brings together researchers, educators, students, and explorers with a shared passion for geography.

Whether you are an academic, a policymaker, or simply curious about the natural and cultural richness of our country, the Geographical Society welcomes you to join our network and explore the world—starting from Tajikistan.

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