Editing Dushanbe (section)

=== Parks ===
As of 2020, there are 15 parks in Dushanbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ҳамаи боғҳои Душанбе дар як харита {{!}} Хабарҳои Тоҷикистон ASIA-Plus|url=https://asiaplustj.info/tj/news/tajikistan/20200831/amai-booi-dushanbe-dar-yak-harita|access-date=2020-09-19|website=asiaplustj.info}}</ref> One of the most well known is Rudaki Park, created in the mid-1930s along with a bronze statue of Lenin.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-09|title=Парк "Рудаки"|url=https://diyor.tj/park-rudaki-v-dushanbe/|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Diyor.tj|language=ru|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918194214/https://diyor.tj/park-rudaki-v-dushanbe/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The park was renovated in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-12-03|title=ПРЕЗИДЕНТ ТАДЖИКИСТАНА ОТКРОЕТ ПАРК ИМ. РУДАКИ » "Ховар" - Национальное Информационное Агентство Таджикистана|url=http://khovar.tj/rus/archive/398-prezident-tadzhikistana-otkroet-park-im.-rudaki.html|access-date=2020-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203024311/http://khovar.tj/rus/archive/398-prezident-tadzhikistana-otkroet-park-im.-rudaki.html|archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> Another park is [[Victory Park, Dushanbe|Victory Park]], which was created in 1975 to commemorate the Great Patriotic War.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767857578|title=Ėnsiklopedii︠a︡i millii Tojik|others=Qurbonov, A., Amirshoḣī, Nurmuḣammad, Қурбонов, А, Амиршоҳӣ, Нурмуҳаммад|year=2011|isbn=978-99947-33-45-3|location=Dushanbe|oclc=767857578}}</ref> The Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan was founded in 1933, and trees planted then are still prominent in the park. In 2007 a collection of [[folk architecture]] was added the park.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ботанический сад Академии наук Таджикистана|url=https://mvd.tj/index.php/ru/kulturnoe-nasledie/27339-bo-i-markazii-botanikii-to-ikiston-2|access-date=2020-09-19|website=mvd.tj|archive-date=17 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417104944/https://mvd.tj/index.php/ru/kulturnoe-nasledie/27339-bo-i-markazii-botanikii-to-ikiston-2|url-status=dead}}</ref><gallery mode="nolines" widths="190" heights="200" class="center" caption="Parks in Dushanbe">
File:Ustod Rudaki Park and Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe - panoramio.jpg|Rudaki Park with the Palace of the Nation in the background.
File:Лошадь и мельница 01.jpg|Folk architecture area of the botanical gardens
File:Botanical gardens 2 - panoramio.jpg|Dushanbe botanical gardens
File:Российские военнослужащие приняли участие в параде в Таджикистане 02.jpg|A parade in Victory Park
File:World war 2 memorial, victory park (2) - panoramio.jpg|World War 2 memorial in Victory Park
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