EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MAY 7
— In the large hall of the Tajik National Conservatory at 16:00 A classical music concert of the international project “Rising Stars” will take place, at which works by Russian and foreign composers will be performed. Performers: Olga Lazurenko (piano), Polina Perovskaya (lyric-coloratura soprano) and Maxim Shabanov (baritone). Free admission.
DAY IN THE HISTORY OF TAJIKISTAN – MAY 7
1992 – The Coalition Government of National Accord was formed.
2010 – A flood occurred in Kulyab and surrounding areas, as a result of which 45 people died and about 4.5 thousand people were left homeless.
2020 – President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed the government of his country to send 144 mobile medical containers for a mobile hospital to Tajikistan as humanitarian aid.
2021 – In the village of Navobod, Jomi district, Khatlon region, houses went underground due to soil erosion, leaving dozens of families homeless.
2024 – Tajikistan signed the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action.
2025 – A representative office of the German Federal Association of Small and Medium Businesses (BVMW) has opened in Dushanbe.
PERSONALITY
1929 – Actor, theater director, Honored Worker of Tajikistan Alirizo Rakhmonkulov was born.
1935 – Academician, Honored Scientist of Tajikistan Pulod Usmanov was born.
1948 – Opera singer, national figure of Tajikistan Adham Khalikov was born.
Adham Khalikov was born in the Farkhor region of Tajikistan. In 1970, he graduated from the Tajik State Institute of Arts named after M. Tursunzade in Dushanbe, and in 1979, from the Moscow State Conservatory. For ten years, from 1970 to 1980, Khalikov was a soloist of the Moscow ensemble “Red Star”.
After studying in Moscow, he returned to Tajikistan and from 1980 until the end of his life he worked at the Tajik Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Sadriddin Aini. Over the years of his career, the singer has performed more than 30 opera roles, in most cases the main roles. Among his most significant works are the images of Onegin in Eugene Onegin, Renato in Un ballo in maschera, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, as well as leading roles in national operas such as Aini, The Golden Village, Slaves and The Return.
Khalikov’s creative activity received international recognition: he performed on the famous stages of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Milan. In the 1980s and 1990s, the artist toured actively in Germany and Austria. For some time he held the position of artistic director of the Bel Canto International Academy of Opera Singing in Milan.
The singer died on July 3, 2024 at the age of 76.
1969 – Former Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Advisor to the President on Economic Affairs of Tajikistan Nematullo Khikmatullozoda was born.
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS OF MAY 7
May 7th entered the history of world science and technology as Birthday radio.
It was on this day in 1895, at a meeting of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society, that Russian physicist Alexander Popov made a report and demonstrated the world’s first radio receiver, which he created, carrying out the first radio communication session.
Today this date is a holiday for workers in all communications sectors: television workers, radio broadcasters, postal workers, signalmen, shortwave radio amateurs.
271 years ago The grand opening of Moscow University took place (today – Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov). Moscow University is rightfully considered the oldest Russian university. It was founded in 1755, thanks to the activities of the outstanding encyclopedist scientist, the first Russian academician Mikhail Lomonosov.
MSU has 40 faculties, 15 research institutes, about 750 departments, departments and laboratories, a Medical Research and Education Center, a Scientific Library, 4 museums, a Botanical Garden, and a Science Park. Branches of the university exist in Sevastopol, Tashkent, Astana, Baku, Dushanbe, Yerevan.
On May 7, 1985, the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a resolution “On measures to overcome drunkenness and alcoholism, eradicate moonshine”which went down in history as “Prohibition” It was the first brainchild of the new General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev, who was elected to the post in March of that year. The punishment for moonshine brewing was tightened, which practically became illegal, even if they were “driving” for themselves and not for sale.
Against this background, the number of poisonings with surrogates increased sharply: they drank everything that burned. Hospitals were overcrowded with those who were poisoned by alcohol-containing liquids.
But there were also positive aspects – the life expectancy of men increased, and the number of children increased: during the anti-alcohol decree, 5.5 million newborns were born per year, 500 thousand more than every year over the previous 20-30 years, and 8 percent fewer weakened ones were born. The overall crime rate has also decreased.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR MAY 7 (according to the Hydrometeorological Center of Tajikistan)
In Sughd region – Partly cloudy, no precipitation. East wind 5-10, in some places increasing to 12-17 m/s. Temperature in the valleys at night 15-200 warm, daytime 28-330 warm, in the mountains at night 4-90 warm, daytime 18-230 heat.
In Khatlon region – Partly cloudy, no precipitation. East wind 5-10 m/s. Temperature: in the valleys at night 15-200 warm, daytime 31-360 warm, in the foothills at night 9-140 warm, daytime 22-270 heat.
In the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region – Partly cloudy, partly cloudy in places, no precipitation. East wind 5-10 m/s. Temperature: in the west of GBAO at night 5-100 warm, sometimes up to 13-150 warm, daytime 20-250 warm, sometimes up to 28-300 warm, in the east of GBAO at night 0-50 frost, day 8-130 heat.
By districts of republican subordination – Partly cloudy, no precipitation. East wind 5-10 m/s. Temperature: in the valleys at night 12-170 warm, daytime 28-330 warm, in the mountains at night 7-120 warm, daytime 23-280 heat.
Around the city of Dushanbe – Partly cloudy, no precipitation. East wind 5-10 m/s. Temperature: at night 15-170 warm, daytime 31-330 heat.
Around the city of Khujand – Slightly cloudy, no precipitation. East wind 5-10, at times increasing to 12-17 m/s. Temperature at night 18-200 warm, daytime 31-330 heat.
Around the city of Bokhtar – Partly cloudy, no precipitation. East wind 5-10 m/s. Temperature: at night 17-190 warm, daytime 34-360 heat.
Around the city of Khorog – Partly cloudy, no precipitation. East wind 5-10 m/s. Temperature: at night 8-100 warm, daytime 23-250 heat.
