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3 unusual facts about Uzbek


Arslanbob

The town of Arslanbob has around 1500 inhabitants; most of the population are Kyrgyz and Uzbek, and less than 1% is Russian, Tatar, Tajik, or Chechen.

Flag of Uzbekistan

The 12 stars depicted on the state flag of the Republic of Uzbekistan are also directly connected with Uzbek historical traditions, with the ancient calendar-cycle of the sun.

Uzbek

Uzbek and Uzbekistani are adjectives referring to the state of Uzbekistan.


Abdulla Oripov

Abdulla Oripov has translated the works of many famous foreign poets, such as Alexander Pushkin, Dante Alighieri, Lesya Ukrainka, Nikolay Nekrasov, Nizami Ganjavi, and Taras Shevchenko into the Uzbek language.

Adolat

Adolat (Uzbek Адолат, literally Justice) is a website collecting and showing state and human crimes of Kyrgyz government and its military.

Afghan Transitional Administration

Another powerful warlord, the Uzbek Abdul Rashid Dostum was also not part of the cabinet, hoever there was one Uzbek more in the transiotional administration than in the interim administration.

Anvar Berdiev

On 13 September 2012 he scored his 199th and 200th goals in a match against Qizilqum Zarafshon in the Uzbek League and became the second Uzbek player after Zafar Kholmurodov to score 200 goals in league.

Ayn

Ghayn (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Azerbaijani alphabets

Balkh Airlines

The company had been founded to serve the needs of General Dostum, the Uzbek warlord ruling the north of Afghanistan at that time.

Chowdur

Many Choudur appear to have stayed on the Mangyshlak Peninsula from then through the Timurid and the Shaybanid Uzbek periods, beginning the Turco-Mongol transformation of these originally Turko-Iranian people.

Erkin Vohidov

Erkin Vohidov has translated the works of many famous foreign poets, such as Alexander Blok, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, Muhammad Iqbal, Rasul Gamzatov, Sergey Yesenin, and Silva Kaputikyan into the Uzbek language.

Faryab Province

Former Tajik warlord Ismail Khan also fled to Faryab to reconstitute his forces following the Taliban takeover of Herat Province, but was betrayed by Uzbek warlord Abdul Malik Pahlawan.

Foreign relations of Uzbekistan

The Uzbek deputy foreign minister indicated that the Uzbek government was interested in talks with the EU during a visit to Helsinki, Finland in June 2006, just before Finland assumed the EU presidency.

Gʻafur Gʻulom

He translated Le Mariage de Figaro of Pierre Beaumarchais, Othello of William Shakespeare, and Gulistan of Saadi Shirazi into Uzbek.

Gulnara

Gulnara Karimova (born 1972) , controversial Uzbek businesswoman, designer, singer and diplomat.

Hamid Arasly

He was the author on works focused on the relation between Azerbaijani literature with Persian, Turkish, Uzbek and Turkmen literature.

Hamid Olimjon

In addition to writing his own poetry, Hamid Olimjon translated the works of many famous foreign authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Serafimovich, Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nikolai Ostrovsky into the Uzbek language.

Human rights in Uzbekistan

In 2005 the Uzbek government arrested Sanjar Umarov, an opposition politician, and raided the office of Sunshine Uzbekistan, an opposition political alliance.

Ibrahim Bek

He was a member of the Uzbek Lakai tribe in Eastern Bukhara and led an organized resistance against the Soviet military in the 1920s.

Igor Savitsky

Thereafter, Savitsky began collecting the works of Central Asian artists, including Alexander Volkov, Ural Tansykbayev and Victor Ufimtsev of the Uzbek school, and later those of the Russian avant-garde – including Kliment Red'ko, Lyubov Popova, Mukhina, Ivan Koudriachov and Robert Falk – whose paintings, although already recognized in Western Europe (especially in France), had been banned in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin’s rule and through the 1960s.

Inomjon Usmonxo‘jayev

Inomjon Buzrukovich Usmonxo‘jayev (in Cyrillic Uzbek: Иномжон Бузрукович Усмонхўжаев ; in Russian: Инамджан Бузрукович Усманходжаев Inamdzhan Buzrukovich Usmankhodzhayev) (born on 21 May 1930) served as the eleventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR.

Jahangir Mamatov

Mamatov organized an investigative group in the parliament regarding violence in Bekobod, Boka, Parkent and concluded that those incidents were masterminded by the Uzbek government.

Jowzjan Province

Following a series of changing allegiances and falling out with Uzbek warlord Abdul Malik Pahlawan in 1997, the Taliban withdrew from the area, but in 1998 a contingent of 8,000 Taliban troops pressed through neighboring Faryab, seizing Abdul Rashid Dostum's headquarters in Sheberghan.

Karakalpak language

Ethnic Karakalpaks who live in the viloyatlar of Uzbekistan tend to speak local Uzbek dialects.

Kirby O'Donnell

O'Donnell searches the forbidden city of Shahrazar, ruled by the Uzbek Shaibar Khan, for the lost treasure of Khuwarezm (which, legend states, was hidden to protect it from Genghis Khan).

Kot, Fatehpur

Research indicates that the Kokkhars are the descendants of Uzbek Persians who, after their defeat by the Arabs in Persia, took refuge in Punjab; the army of King Babar (which was passing through the area) recruited them because of their ferocity in warfare.

Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan barrier

The 1999 Tashkent bombing in February 1999 which were blamed on foreign Islamic militants and the subsequent incursion of the Kyrgyz region of Batken by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who were based in Tajikistan and opposed to Uzbek President Islam Karimov, led to Uzbekistan sealing its border and commencement constructing a barbed wire fence around long sections of its border with Kyrgyzstan in the Ferghana Valley.

Kyrgyzstani constitutional referendum, 2010

In the weeks prior to the election ethnic unrest in the south of the country (Bakiyev's home region) in the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad between minority Uzbeks and indigenous Kyrgyz curfew was imposed in a clampdown by Bishkek.

Kyzylunkyur

A road runs from here southwest down the Kyzyl-Ünkür valley 45 km or more to Bazar-Korgon on the main M41 highway near the Uzbek border.

Languages of Afghanistan

Other regional languages, such as Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi, Pashayi and Nuristani are spoken by minority groups across the country.

Lola Yoʻldosheva

Lola played one of the leading roles in the 2003 Uzbek movie Sevinch along with Shahzoda.

Later she sang a song entitled "Undan nimam kam" with Tohir Sodiqov, the frontman of the popular Uzbek rock band Bolalar.

Mahallada duv-duv gap

One day before the start of production he asked the renowned Uzbek author Abdulla Qahhor to translate the script.

Marina Sisoeva

Marina Sisoyeva (Uzbek: Марина Сисоева; born 30 May 1993 in Fergana, Uzbekistan) is an Uzbek weighlifter.

Marsel Idiatullin

He is member of the Gennadi Krasnitsky club of Uzbek top scorers with 101 goals (89 in Uzbek League and 12 in Cup matches).

Nikolai Borisovich Kulikov

In 1976 Nikolai Kulikov successfully played for FC Yangier (Yangier, Uzbek SSR) and was recruited by FC Pakhtakor (Tashkent, Uzbek SSR).

Nukus Museum of Art

Opened in 1966, the museum houses a collection of over 82,000 items, ranging from antiquities from Khorezm to Karakalpak folk art, Uzbek fine art and, uniquely, the second largest collection of Russian avant-garde in the world (after the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg).

Osmay Acosta

became the junior world champ at 75 kg/165 lbs in 2002 in Santiago de Cuba beating Russian Nikolai Galacki 10:9, Uzbek Alisher Matniazov KO, and Kazack Dmitriy Gotfrid in the final 14:8.

Qaf

Ka with descender (Қ қ), a Cyrillic letter in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Abkhaz alphabets

Second Karzai cabinet

So Karzai was under pressure to exclude ineffective or corrupt officials, but at the same time powerful Afghans who helped deliver his re-election were promised or demanding positions, including the Uzbek warlord, Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Shukrullo Mirsaidov

Shukrullo Raxmatovich Mirsaidov (in Cyrillic Uzbek: Шукрулло Рахматович Мирсаидов; in Russian: Шукрулла Рахметович Мирсаидов Shukrulla Rakhmatovich Mirsaidov; his first name is often shortened as Shukur) was a politician in Uzbekistan.

Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

In October 1929, under the initiative of Shirinsho Shotemur, the Tajik ASSR was transformed into a full-fledged Soviet Socialist Republic and became Tajik SSR, which additionally absorbed the Khujand region (today's Sughd Province in northern Tajikistan) from Uzbek SSR.

Tohir Sodiqov

The name of the band "Bolalar" means "children" or "boys" in Uzbek.

Ural Tansykbayev

Jointly with artists M.Arinin, S.Cheprakov, and Madra Mandicencio, he made more than 30 monumental paintings for the Uzbek pavilion at All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) (now All-Russia Exhibition Centre) in Moscow (1952–1955).

Uzbekistan Airways

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Uzbek President Islam Karimov in 1992 authorised the creation of Uzbekistan Airways.

Zeromax

FMN Logistics, Inc.'s founder and CEO is the American Harry Eustace, Jr. and its President is American Harry Eustace, Sr., who is a former President of the Uzbek-American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., and denies being a close associate of, personally knowing, or ever having met Gulnara Karimova.


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