On the morning of September 11, President Emomali Rahmon arrived on a working trip to Khovaling district of Khatlon region, where he opened a number of new facilities and got acquainted with the living conditions of local residents.
The first facility put into operation was the building of a private educational institution, the "Jalol Ikromi Gymnasium". It was built on the initiative of businessman Abdullo Hasanov in honor of the 35th anniversary of Tajikistan's independence, the presidential press service writes.
The gymnasium is designed to train 456 students in one shift. The project cost of the gymnasium was 5.5 million somoni.
The modern building is equipped with an electronic library, an indoor sports hall, a playground, specialized classrooms, three laboratories (physics, chemistry, biology), as well as a dining room and auxiliary facilities. An autonomous heating system is provided.
The gymnasium has organized 12 subject circles to prepare students for national and international competitions and Olympiads.
The head of state also remotely opened 3 secondary schools, 2 kindergartens and one sports and tourism center in Khovaling. The facilities were built in rural jamoats of Chukurak, Taghi Jar and Darai Mukhtor.
In total, 6 educational facilities have been opened in Khovaling, designed to train more than 2,600 people in total.
Then Emomali Rahmon took part in the opening of the Khovaling Stone Age Historical Museum.
The museum contains rare historical finds and monuments discovered as a result of archaeological excavations in places such as Kuldara, Honakoh, Honakoh 1-2 and Obi Mazor.
The museum's exhibits reflect three historical periods: the Stone Age, the Early and Late Middle Ages.
The stone tools that make up most of the museum's finds date back to the Lower Paleolithic period and are more than 950 thousand years old.
Kuldara in Khovaling is considered one of the oldest regions of Central Asia, where settlements of the Stone Age — the Lower (Early) Paleolithic – were discovered.
