Vahdat District is one of the larger districts of the Districts of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

, called Kofarnihon District until the introduction of a new administrative division in the end of 2003. During the Soviet

Soviet Union

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 period it was named Ordzhonikidzeabad district in honor of Georgian

Georgian people

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 communist

Communism

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 Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

Grigol Ordzhonikidze ორჯონიკიძე - Grigol Orjonikidze, , generally known as Sergo Ordzhonikidze ; – February 18, 1937) was a Georgian Bolshevik, later member of the CPSU Politburo and close friend to Joseph Stalin...

. It extends east of Dushanbe

Dushanbe

-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...

 along the southern slopes of the Gissar Range

Gissar Range

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, bordering on Varzob District

Varzob district

Varzob District or Nohiyai Varzob is a district in the Region of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan, lying north of Dushanbe. It borders on Hisor District from the west, Rudaki District from the south, and Vahdat District from the east. The Gissar Range runs along its northern edge. The Varzob...

 from the west and Rasht District

Rasht district

Rasht District or Nohiyai Rasht , formerly called Gharm District, is an eastern district in the Region of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan...

 from the east. Its long southern border runs (from west to east) along Khatlon Province and then Faizobod

Faizobod district

Faizobod District or Nohiyai Faizobod is a small district in the Region of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan, about 60 km east of Dushanbe. It borders on Vahdat District from the west and the north, the Roghun District from the east, and the Khatlon Province from the south. Its capital...

, Roghun

Roghun district

Roghun District or Nohiyai Roghun is a small district in the Region of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan, bordering on Faizobod District from the west, the Vahdat District from the north-west, and the Nurobod District from the north-east. Its southeastern border is with the Khatlon Province,...

, and Nurobod

Nurobod District

Nurobod District may refer to:* Nurobod District, Tajikistan in the Region of Republican Subordination of Tajikistan* Nurobod District, Uzbekistan in the Samarqand Province of Uzbekistan...

 districts. The district capital Vahdat (formerly Ordzhonikidzeabad) is placed off-center at the extreme southwest of the district, just 10 km east of Dushanbe

Dushanbe

-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...

.