Editing Dushanbe (section)

=== Air transport ===
{{Main|Dushanbe International Airport}}
Rashid Beck Ahriev and Peter Komarov piloted the first flight to the city from [[Bukhara]] on 3 September 1924 on a [[Junkers F 13|Junkers F-13]]; the service ran three times a week from small airfield on modern day [[Rudaki Avenue]].<ref name="Dushanbe Encyc-2004f">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65068362|title=Dushanbe : ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡|date=2004|publisher=Glavnai︠a︡ nauchnai︠a︡ redakt︠s︡ii︠a︡ Tadzhikskoĭ nat︠s︡ionalʹnoĭ ėnt︠s︡iklopedii|others=Dinorshoev, Muso.|isbn=5-89870-071-4|location=Dushanbe|chapter=Transport|oclc=65068362|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028115236/http://dushanbe.tj/img/ENS.doc|archive-date=28 October 2010}}</ref> In 1927, the second [[Transport in the Soviet Union#Civil aviation|air route in the Soviet Union]] opened from [[Tashkent]] to [[Samarkand]] to [[Termez]] to Dushanbe on the Junkers F-13, two years before the introduction of automobiles and five before the railway. A small Stalinabad airport was created, and in 1930 a first-class airport was constructed in the city. The first scheduled flight from the city began in 1945 on the [[Lisunov Li-2|Li-2]].<ref name="Abdullaev-2018b" /> The state airline, Tojikiston - now known as [[Tajik Air]] - was created in 1949. In the 50s and 60s, many new aircraft were introduced to the Tajik Civil Air Fleet. The Tajik Civil Aviation Administration won first place in the USSR for efficiency in the 1980s.<ref name="Tajik Development Gateway на русском языке-2020">{{Cite web|title=Транспорт - Страница 3 из 3|url=https://www.tajik-gateway.org/wp/tag/transport/|access-date=2020-12-07|website=Tajik Development Gateway на русском языке|date=2 December 2020 |language=ru-RU}}</ref>

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File:Dushanbe Airport.jpeg|View of Dushanbe International Airport
File:Dushanbe Airport (DYU).jpg|Terminal of Dushanbe International Airport
File:Dushanbe airport 161 (26129451585).jpg|[[Air Astana]] plane at Dushanbe International Airport
</gallery>The city is served by [[Dushanbe International Airport]] which, as of April 2015, had regularly scheduled flights to [[Ürümqi]], [[Kabul]], [[Delhi]], [[Dubai]], [[Istanbul]], [[Frankfurt]], and major cities in Russia and [[Central Asia]], amongst others. [[Tajik Air]] had its head office on the grounds of [[Dushanbe Airport]] in Dushanbe.<ref>"Directory: World Airlines." ''[[Flight International]]''. 30 March-5 April 2004. [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2004/2004-09%20-%200321.html?search=%22Tajik%20Air%22 78]. "Titov Street 31/2, Dushanbe Airport, Dushanbe, 734006, Tajikistan."</ref> [[Somon Air]], which opened in 2008, has its head office in Dushanbe.<ref>"[http://www.somonair.com/en/page.php?pageid=65 Contacts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129052324/http://www.somonair.com/en/page.php?pageid=65 |date=29 January 2013 }}." [[Somon Air]]. Retrieved on 4 December 2010. "Contacts: 40, Titova Str. Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 734012." [http://www.somonair.com/page.php?pageid=6 Address in Tajik]      : "734012, Таджикистан, Душанбе, ул. Титова, 40"</ref> The government planned to devote .18% of Tajikistan's GDP to the development of aviation in a large part in Dushanbe.<ref name="Tajik Development Gateway на русском языке-2020" /> Japanese investors created a cargo terminal at the airport, costing $28 million.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Маркази боркашонии фурудгоҳи Душанбе бо сармояи Ҷопон сохта шуд|url=https://www.ozodi.org/a/29317657.html|access-date=2020-11-29|website=Радиои Озодӣ|date=25 June 2018 |language=tg}}</ref>