Navdonak

Navdonak is a village in the jamoat Kalai Surkh in the Rasht District in central Tajikistan. Navdonak
is east of Dushanbe in the Vakhsh valley and has a Köppen [climate classification] of Dsa and experiences wet and cold winters with dry cool summers. The village is close to the town of Gharm.

History

During the 1920s the area was a hotbed for the Basmachi, the anti-Soviet resistance in Central Asia.
During the Civil War in Tajikistan from 1992 to 1997, the area was a hotbed for Islamist forces, and October 2010, the Tajik Interior Ministry asserted it had killed three militants nearby at Gharm amid an alleged rise in Islamic militancy in the region.