Transformation of the semiotic space of the city of Dushanbe as a cultural text

The work attempts to c onsider the transformation of the semiosphere of a modern city in terms of its influence on the processes of the urban cultural and symbolic environment and the resulting metamorphoses in the lives of the inhabitants of this city. The analysis covers the period from the middle of the 20th century to the present. The localization of the subjects considered in this study is ranked from stable components to more mobile and changeable ones. In a short period of time, the question of the difficult «destiny» of the city has been raised, both from a historical and semiotic point of view. The perspective of cultural analysis is built through the evaluation of places, and its theme is developed on the empirics of the material world, and also addresses issues related to objects of immaterial culture, everyday phenomena and ethno-geographic components of the selected region.