Tashkent

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Tashkent

 

 

Soviet monument in 1963

Toshkent or Tashkent, city in eastern Uzbekistan, capital of the country and of Toshkent Viloyat (Oblast). Located in an oasis near the Chirchiq River in a cotton- and fruit-growing region, Toshkent is a major industrial and transportation center. 

 

the opera house

 

apartments have a unique Uzbek style

It has industries producing machinery, cotton and silk textiles, chemicals, tobacco products, and furniture. A center of Uzbek culture, Toshkent has several large libraries and is the seat of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences and numerous other institutions of higher learning. A subway system was opened here in 1977.

 

Intourist Hotel (Photo from 1963)

 

same hotel in 2001

 

hidden by the trees

The first mention of Toshkent dates from the 7th century AD, although it was probably founded by the 1st century BC. The city was conquered, successively, by the Arabs in the 8th century AD, by Genghis Khan in the early 13th century, and by Tamerlane in the 14th century. It was annexed by Russia in 1865, and a new Russian city was built around the older town. Toshkent succeeded Samarqand as the capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union in 1930.

 

Khrushchev era building

 

now in 2001 paved streets but still old modes of transportation

 

earthquake memorial

In 1966 Toshkent suffered heavy damage from an earthquake.

 

5:23 AM 26 April 1966
time of the quake

Toshkent became the capital of independent Uzbekistan in 1991. Population (1991 estimate) 2,120,000.

 

government building of independent Uzbekistan

 

Muslim revival since independence

 

slogan in 1963

 

new Communist Party building
(left unfinished since 1991)

 

university building

 

patriotic grain storage on outskirts

 

Timur's Gate
(along the road to Samarkand)

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