Soviet Tajikistan: Arrival of the first train in Dushanbe
Советский Таджикистан: Прибытие первого поезда в Душанбе
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On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the first that day - the shots of the arrival of the locomotive, as well as people waiting for it with excitement, became the basis of the first Tajik film.
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1929-10-16
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