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8 unusual facts about Uzbekistan


Aleksander Burba

In 1962 after the initiative and with consultations of A. Burba a similar production was established at the Angren Chemical and Metallurgical Plant in the city of Angren, Uzbekistan (now "Angrenenergotsvetmet").

Aşik Sümmani

According to legend, Sümmani was in love with Gülperi (princess of the legendary land of Badesah, possibly in current Uzbekistan) whom he has been searching for all his life.

Daewoo Motors

In August 1992, Daewoo set up UzDaewooAuto, a joint venture in Asaka, Uzbekistan, leveraging the presence of a large local ethnic Korean minority.

Farkhad Dam

The Farkhad Dam (also known as Dam-16) is a hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the Syr Darya River, near Shirin in Sirdaryo Province, Uzbekistan, and Khujand in Sughd Province, Tajikistan.

Linc Energy

Yerostigaz is a subsidiary of Linc Energy located in Angren, Uzbekistan.

Photography in Uzbekistan

Some of Divanov's works are currently preserved in the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk.

Uzbek

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

Yenikeyev

Descendants of the family reside on the territory of Russia, in the Republics of Tatarstan, Mordovia, Bashkortostan, Uzbekistan, as well as in Turkmenistan.


2011 FIBA Asia Championship qualification

The 2011 Middle Asia qualifying tournament for ‘Stans’ section of the Middle Asia was held on July 31, 2011 in Navoiy, Uzbekistan.

416th Air Expeditionary Wing

In 2002 the wing was converted to provisional status as the 416th Air Expeditionary Group It served as the host unit at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base (K2), in Qarshi, Uzbekistan, from 2002–2005, where it supported operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Abulkasym Madrassah

The Abulkasym Madrassah is a historically significant building located in Tashkent, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan.

Adelung

Mount Adelung, the highest peak in the Pskem Range in extreme north-east Uzbekistan's Tashkent Province

Ak Astana-Baba

Ak Astana-Baba is a mausoleum that is located in the Surxondaryo Province of Uzbekistan The mausoleum is being considered for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Albracca

Scholars have identified Albracca with Bukhara in modern Uzbekistan, in part because the siege of Albracca by Agrican described in the Orlando innamorato resembles the historic siege of Bukhara by Genghis Khan in 1220.

Anna German

She was born in Urgench, a city with a population of 22,000 in northwestern Uzbekistan in Central Asia, then a part of the USSR.

Arctia rueckbeili

It is found in Tien Shan, Alai and Turkestan mountains in Central Asia within Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Chinese province of Xinjiang at altitudes 1300-3500 m a.s.l. The moth flies June to July.

Balkhash

Balkhash perch, a species of perch found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China

Beg Khan

Mohammad Murad Beg, a Khan of Kunduz (modern Afghanistan) and later Emir of Bokhara (modern Uzbekistan) in the 19th century.

Brichmulla

Brichmulla (also spelled Brich Mulla and Brich-Mulla, Russian: Брич-Мулла́) is a village in the northeast of Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan, by the Koksu River near its inflow into the Charval Reservoir by the southwestern extremity of the Koksu Ridge, west Tian Shan.

Chagatai people

The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in south-east Uzbekistan and in southern Tajikistan.

Daewoo Gentra

The nameplate has also been used by the Uzbekistan-based manufacturer Uz-Daewoo Avto since the middle of 2013 for a version of the first generation of the Daewoo Lacetti, marketed throughout the CIS states.

Demographics of Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan has an ethnic Korean population that was forcibly relocated to the region from the Soviet Far East in 1937-1938.

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.

Gareev

Timur Gareev (born 1988) is a chess Grandmaster from Uzbekistan

Georgy Agzamov

In 1966, at the age of 12, he was the chess champion of his town of Almalyk (Olmaliq) in the province of Tashkent of central Uzbekistan.

Gissar Valley

It is about 100 km long and up to 20 km wide in the middle, stretching from Vahdat district in the east to Tursunzoda district on the border with Uzbekistan in the west, with the capital Dushanbe and Hisor district at its center.

Greater Khorasan

Khorasan in its proper sense comprised principally the cities of Mashhad, Nishapur and Sabzevar (now in northeastern Iran), Balkh, Herat and Taloqan (now in Afghanistan), Merv, Nisa and Abiward (now in southern Turkmenistan), and Samarqand and Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan).

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.

Igor Savitsky

He single-handedly founded the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, named after I.V. Savitsky, an art museum based in Nukus, Uzbekistan.

Kadyrov

Rashid Kadyrov, Prosecutor General in the government of Uzbekistan in 2004

Kenneth Carlsen

In Copenhagen with Frederik Fetterlein in 1997 (lost to Andrei Olhovskiy/Brett Steven), Tashkent, Uzbekistan with Sjeng Schalken in 1998 (lost to Stefano Pescosolido/Laurence Tieleman), and Beijing with Michael Berrer in 2006 (lost to Mario Ančić/Mahesh Bhupathi).

Main Turkmen Canal

The length of the canal was to be more than 1200 kilometers, beginning from Takhiatash, a town/city in Uzbekistan, then extended 10 km from the town of Nukus to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Coast of Turkmenistan.

Marina Sisoeva

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

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Miroslav Jenča

Between 2004-2007 he led the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Center in Tashkent (Uzbekistan).

Nikolay Florea

After the finish of the school and astronomical department of the University He was employed as astronomer in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), while subsequently He was transferred to the Shternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University.

Petya Miladinova

She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).

Robert Frimtzis

In June 1941, at the age of eleven his peaceful town was destroyed by the Nazi Luftwaffe and he survived the ravages of World War II by running for 3000 miles across Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan to Tajikistan.

Sardor Kabuldjanov

Sardor Kabuldjanov(born 2 February 1987) is a Uzbekistani footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Uzbek League team Buxoro.

Scouting in Uzbekistan

On October 5, 2004, the Internet Access and Training Program (IATP) brought together 20 Scouts from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan for a two-hour online discussion of their activities from the IATP access sites in Jizzakh, Tashkent, and Urgench, Uzbekistan, as well as in five cities in Kazakhstan, aimed to bring together representatives of the Scouting movements from these countries to promote friendship and cooperation.

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.

Skobelev

Fergana, a city in Uzbekistan, called Skobelev between 1907 and 1920

Stepan Atayan

Stepan Atayan alongside with the national team of Uzbekistan won against China in the 1994 Asian Games which took place in Hiroshima Japan, where he was awarded with a gold metal.

Trolleybuses in Urgench

On 26 October 2009, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to close the remaining trolleybus systems in Jizzakh and Namangan at the end of 2009, and in the capital Tashkent during 2010.

Turan Depression

Three of the largest cities in the Turan Depression are: Daşoguz in Turkmenistan, Nukus in Uzbekistan, and Urganch, also in Uzbekistan.

Ural Tansykbayev

He studied with Russian painters and followers of the Peredvizhniki ("Wanderers"), first under Nikolay Vasilyevich Rozanov (1869–1940) his art studio of Tashkent Art Museum (now Fine Arts Museum of Uzbekistan) (1924–1928), and later in the Art and Pedagogical Technical School, Penza (1928–1929), under Ivan Silovich Goryushkin-Sorokopudov (1873–1954) and Nikolay Filippovich Petrov (1872–1941).

UZB

Uzbek language, a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan

Uzbek cuisine

Uzbekistan has 14 wineries, the oldest and most famous being the Khovrenko Winery in Samarkand (est. 1927).

Uzbekistan Airways

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

Weightlifting at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's 69 kg

Elmira Ramileva of Uzbekistan originally finished 5th, but was disqualified after she tested positive for Stanozolol.

Wrestling at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg

Jakhongir Muminov of Uzbekistan originally got the 7th place, but was disqualified after he tested positive for Methylhexanamine.

Zamir Gotta

He is best known as the traveling companion of American chef Anthony Bourdain in his Travel Channel TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, when they traveled to Uzbekistan, Russia and Romania and later in the U.S. Rust Belt, Ukraine, and Kansas City.

Ziyoda Qobilova

She has also become famous outside of Uzbekistan thanks to a cover of Ruslana's song Wild Dances.

Ziyoda rose to stardom in Uzbekistan for the first time with the song "Sevmaganman", a cover of Ruslana’s Wild Dances, in 2004.

Zlata Tkach

During World War II, Zloty was evacuated with her mother to Central Asia, but was separated from her in transit and ended up in the city of Namangan in Uzbekistan, where there was typhus and typhoid fever.


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