Rudaki District


Rudaki District is a district in Tajikistan, one of the Districts of Republican Subordination. It stretches south from Dushanbe, bordering on Shahrinav District, the city of Hisor, and Varzob District from the north and northwest, Tajikistan's Khatlon Region from the south and the east, and Uzbekistan from the west. Its administrative capital is Somoniyon, a southern suburb of Dushanbe, called Leninsky in the Soviet period. The population of the district is 518,200.
A border guard training center is located here, used by the Tajik Border Troops. In October 2013, the Tajik Interior Ministry opened a new police station in the district.

Administrative divisions

The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into three towns and thirteen jamoats. They are as follows:
JamoatPopulation
Navobod 9,100
Somoniyon 22,600
Mirzo Tursunzoda 17,900
Chimteppa45,221
Chorgulteppa37,551
Chorteppa32,076
Choryakkoron14,496
Esanboy20,072
Guliston41,130
Kiblai13,860
Lohur20,047
Rohati32,152
Rossiya31,030
Sarikishti38,474
Sultonobod16,066
Zainabobod36,844