220px, Old Istiqlol Istiqlol (; , formerly Taboshar) is a city in

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

, located in

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. Istiqlol is a city of regional subordination, administratively subordinated to the regional capital of

Khujand Khujand, sometimes spelled Khodjent and formerly known as Leninabad from 1936 to 1991, is the second-largest city of Tajikistan and the capital of Tajikistan's northernmost Sughd province. Khujand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, d ...

. The first Soviet uranium mine was established in Taboshar during the

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. Taboshar was the first of many officially secret Soviet closed cities related to uranium mining and production. In 2022, a contract was agreed for a subsidiary of

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to reclaim land on the tailings dump, which contains of material. The population of Istiqlol in 2020 is estimated at 17,600.

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Populated places in Sughd Region Uranium mines in Kazakhstan {{Sughd-geo-stub

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