 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 Bukhara.The "Garm Oblast" consisted of much of the Qarategin Valley, as well as the district of Kalai-Khumb.During the 1950s much of the population of Gharm was forcibly relocated by the government to western Tajikistan.