| English: "National Anthem" | |
|---|---|
| Суруди Миллӣ | |
 Sheet music | |
National anthem of Tajikistan | |
| Lyrics | Gulnazar Keldi |
| Music | Sulaymon Yudakov, 1946 |
| Adopted | 7 September 1994 |
| Preceded by | State Anthem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Audio sample | |
Classic vocal recording in A minor | |
"Surudi Milliy" [lower-alpha 1] is the national anthem of Tajikistan, officially adopted on 7 September 1994. It is derived from the anthem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, composed by Sulaymon Yudakov in 1946. [1]
Upon the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajikistan retained the Soviet-era regional anthem, lyrics and all, as its national anthem for a time before replacing the lyrics in 1994. [2] This was in contrast to other former Soviet states like Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan that appropriated their old Soviet-era regional anthems as national ones but did so without the Soviet lyrics.
The lyrics were written by Gulnazar Keldi, and the music was composed by Sulaymon Yudakov. The melody is the same as that of the Tajik SSR anthem.
| Tajik original [3] | Tajik Latin alphabet | IPA transcription [lower-alpha 2] | English translation |
|---|---|---|---|
I | I | 1 | I |
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