Official Name: | Navdonak |
Pushpin Map: | Tajikistan |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Tajikistan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Tajikistan |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Districts of Republican Subordination |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Rasht District |
Coordinates: | 38.9833°N 83°W |
Elevation Ft: | 4446 |
Population Total: | 7438 |
Navdonak (Tajik: Навдонак) is a village in the jamoat Kalai Surkh in the Rasht District (one of the Districts of Republican Subordination) in central Tajikistan. Navdonakis 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.
During the 1920s the area was a hotbed for the Basmachi, the anti-Soviet resistance in Central Asia.[1] [2] 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.[3] [4]