Russia – Tajikistan: the History of Relations

The collection covers a significant period of relations between Tajikistan and Russia, from the 1860s, when its territory became part of the Russian Empire as Turkestan Governorate (Krai), to the present. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ASSR was formed first as part of the RSFSR, and then the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic – as part of the USSR. The collection features the constitution of Tajikistan, statute books, administrative and territorial reference books, research studies on geography and ethnography, notes of Russian travelers and materials of Soviet expeditions of the late 19th-20th centuries, as well as cartographic and visual materials.