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Mediterranean and Caucasian Food in Tashkent
Given how huge Tashkent is, it does not feel right to jam all the restaurants I visited or got delivery from there into one mega-article. It is best to go over them in two parts, with this first one being...
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Commemorating Done Right: Museum of Victory in Tashkent
I was not very fond of the museum scene in Tashkent until one lucky day, the day that I visited the recently opened (in 2023 that is) Museum of Victory near the northern outskirts of the city. From its...
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Technical Museums of Tashkent
Tashkent is home to a plethora of different museums, though most of them are dedicated to more cultural exhibitions. There are a handful of unique ones that are dedicated to the likes of automotive industry...
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Cultural Museums of Tashkent
As is tradition in any and all fledgling countries, Uzbekistan intends to create and reinforce its newly gained and reinforced identity through sponsoring many national museums. Some of them focus on history,...
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The New Tashkent: A Tale of Construction and Surveillance
Tashkent is an interesting city, one that changes ever so rapidly these days. Construction is the name of the game here, that and a lot of armed police officers and some other security details running...
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The Soviet Tashkent: A Tale of Socialist Architecture and Mosaics
Due to the earthquake of 1966 that truly devastated the city, Tashkent today bears the mark of Soviet architecture ever so visibly, as it was rebuilt post haste by orders from Moscow following the disaster....