Sports
Due to my close ties with the Football Federation I had a chance to get to know our famous football players, coaches and other sport officials in person.  In Soviet time we had a very good team 'PAMIR' (Dushanbe), which played in the Soviet Premier League and was the only Central Asian. Unfortunately, after the dissolution of the USSR most of the players left the country  for other famous clubs of Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, and Europe. Some of these Tajik football 'stars' are still playing. Here just several of them I was able to find on the Internet.  Despite the five-year civil war in our country, football is alive in Tajikistan and still popular.   Now we are members of AFC and Tajikistan national team is doing first steps on the international arena. Maybe these steps are not as succesful as it was anticipated but we are currently 120-125 team of the world (among 202 countries) and hopefully will soon close the gap between us and the top Asian teams and move up in FIFA World Ranking.
National Olympic Commitee of Republic of Tajikistan
Tajikistan National Football Federation
PAMIR (Dushanbe) - Champion of the 1 League  of USSR Football Championship (1988)
PAMIR (Dushanbe) - First Season in the Premier League of USSR Football Championship (1989)
PAMIR (Dushanbe - Second Season in the Premier League (1990)
PAMIR (Dushanbe) - Third Season in the Premier League (1991)
and VAKHSH (Qurghonteppa)-1989
Pictures of PAMIR-1988
Varzob (Dushanbe) - Tajikistan Champion of 2000 (in Russian)
2001 Tajikistan championship
Tajikistan Olympic Team 1998
FIFA World Ranking as of 22 August 2001
France'98 World Cup Qualifying
Korea-Japan 2002 World Cup Qualifying
13th Asian Games Men's Football Tournament (Thailand 1998)
Lebanon 2000 Asian Cup Qualifying
Igor Cherevchenko - LOKOMOTIV (Moscow, Russia)
Dmitry Salzman - ZENIT (St. Petersburg, Russia)
One of the best players of the Russian Championship 1999 Arsen Avakov - TORPEDO (Moscow, Russia)
Muhsin Muhamadiev - SHINNIK (Yaroslavl, Russia)
Sergej Mandreko - VfL BOCHUM (Germany)
Rashid Rahimov - ADMIRA-WACKER (Modling, Austria)
Valeri Sarychev - ANYANG LG CHEETAHS (Seoul, South Korea)
Rustam Khaidaraliev - LOKOMOTIV (NIzhni Novgorod, Russia)
Music and culture
Modern Tajik Music from Livesound Club website
OLEG FESOV (English)
OLEG FESOV (German)