Pyandzh

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Pyandzh, Tajikistan Saray Komar, Baumanabad, Kirovabad The original name may have meant ‘Komar's Mansion’, a rather grand description for what was probably a caravanserai or inn, from the Turkic saray ‘mansion’ or ‘palace’. In 1931 the town was renamed ‘Bauman's Town’ after Karl Bauman (1892–1937), a Latvian Communist official, who was not noted for his activities in either Latvia or Tajikistan. Following the murder of Sergey Kirov^† in 1934, the town was renamed in his honour in 1936. The present name, adopted in 1963, comes from the Pyandzh River which may take its name from the Persian panj ‘five’, although why this should be so is not clear.

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