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Stalinabad

British  
/ stəlinaˈbat /

noun

  1. the former name (1929–61) of Dushanbe

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Beginning in the 1930s, the Soviets sent architects to transform its scattering of mud-brick structures into a metropolis whose official name, for decades, would be Stalinabad.

From New York Times

Soviet cities such as Stalinabad and Stalingrad had been renamed in the early 1960s and little emphasis was placed on his personal role in the victory of 1945.

From BBC