Gharm Oblast

In the 1920s, during the reorganization of borders in Central Asia, a Gharm oblast was created out of the old Qarategin and Darvaz, districts of the Emirate of Bukhara.

The Gharm Oblast consisted of much of the Qarategin Valley, as well as the Kalai-Khumb District.

During the 1920s Gharm was a hotbed for the Basmachi, the anti-Soviet resistance in Central Asia.

In 1929 Basmachi commander Faizal Maksum crossed from Afghanistan into Tajikistan and briefly captured the city Gharm, only to later be expelled by Soviet forces.

[3] During the 1950s much of the population of Gharm was forcibly relocated by the government to western Tajikistan (Vakhsh valley).