1. BABUR RECREATION PARK
Babur Recreation Park is another amusement park in the center of Tashkent with lots of green spaces and beautiful pond in the center. Babur Park in Tashkent is home to the Seattle Peace Park, a collection of small tiles designed by Tashkent and its sister city - Seattle.
Seattle Peace Park is a heartwarming reminder of the Cold war from children's perspectives. Along the main alley of Babur Park , ceramic tiles along the way display hopes of peace and a better future. These tiles were made in the 1980s by schoolchildren from Seattle , hence the unusual unofficial name of the park . the 10000 tiles of the park are incredibly moving because of their simple, yet timeless message to favor peace and friendship over war and distrust.
Babur Culture and Recreation park in Tashkent is also home the peace Bell is rung every year on International Day of Peace on 21 September as a call for non -violence and cease fire as well as a commitment to the ideals of friendship and concord. As the park is located near the Tashkent University of Pedagogy, you will see lots of students in the park throughout the year.There is also good collection of amusement rides in the park to excite children. Seattle and Tashkent have -rather astonishingly - been twin cities since 1973, long before the relations of the superpowers began to thaw. The partnership between both cities began only 5 years after the Soviet intervention during the Prague Spring in 1968. It was the first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city and it has continued until today.
2. ALISHER NAVOI STATE LIBRARY
The Alisher Navoi State Library traces its history back to 1870, when it was founded by the first governor general of Turkestan, Alexander von Kaufmann. The library's excellent rare book collection with some items dating back to von Kaufmann's original holdings includes many valuable prerevolutionary books and manuscripts. The main collection of prerevolutionary Turki -language newspaper is also housed in the rare book collection. Apart from the main catalogue, there is a very useful catalogue of Uzbekistan -related materials both on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyustan. Another separate catalogue indexes Soviet journal articles relating to Uzbekistan; ask for the " Uzbekistanica " catalogue.
3. CENTRAL STATE ARCHIVE OF UZBEKISTAN
The State Archives provides three main finding aids for its materials. Archivists direct researchers first to the published archival guides. Because the latest edition was issued in 1976 - a time when guides usually provided only minimal information they are not terribly detailed, but they do give the numbers of the main institutional fondly ( archival groupings). For the prerevolutionary documents , scholars can then turn to the card catalogue on the second floor, where all the archival files are listed by subject . For post 1917 materials, bound opisi ( inventories), held in the third floor reading room, describing the contents of each fond. TsGARU's journal and newspaper holdings, which include the most complete suns available of such prerevolutionary papers Turkestansie Vedomosti, are found in the basement.
3. LIBRARIES
Fundamental Library
The Uzbekistan Academy of Science Library contains all the major works of scholarship and much of popular literature produced in Uzbekistan over the past 50 years. Te library is indispensable for finding doctoral and candidate dissertation abstracts defended in Uzbekistan. Scholars can usually receive the materials they request within 30 minutes to one hour at the Academy of Sciences Library, which makes it a more convenient place to work than Navoi. Reading rooms at the library are large and well -lit and since the library occupies a central building in the Academy of Sciences Complex ( Akademgorodok), it can be reached easily from the various Academy institues. Its journal and newspaper collection also fills in some of the lacunae at Navoi and TsGARU.
opening hour : Mon - Friday 8am -6pm
4. CHARVAK LAKE
Charvak reservoir is located on the river Chirchik several downstream from the confluence of the rivers and Pskem Chatcal, Ugamsky between spurs and ridges Chatkalsky Western Tien Shan.
The reservoir is formed by bulk -rock dam height of 168 meters Chorvoq plant. The volumn of the reservoir is about 2 cubic km. The level of the reservoir is significantly reduced in the summer because its waters are used for irrigation and solving problems of irrigated agriculture in the valley Chirchic.
The Settlement Chorvoq incurred during the construction of hydroelectric power station Chorvoq 1964, was originally a completely Russia -speaking- a kind of island of Russian culture in the mountains of Uzbekistan. During the Soviet period there were also school and kindergartens and cultural center and even a summer cinema " Lights Carvaka". Chorvoq the modern village is located in the immediate vicinity of the ancient village Hodzhikent. Hodzhikent means "Holy Town" . Legends say Hodzhikent same age Tashkent. The historic core of Hozhikent -spring with millennial plane trees on the left bank of the Chirchik in the XIX century. There was a giant -one of the largest in Central Asia -the plane tree, which was placed in the hollow of a roadside tea house . and if we assume that the legends are true, there is , perhaps , in the most northern place where footprints of Alexander the Great. Perhaps it is in this amazing beauty of the mountains , he decided to turn back to the south of India, as on the north and east pf Aksu streteched mysterious man's land, held thatm apparently , was pointless.
For Alexander , it was the edge of the known world. For you, a place covered with legends and mysteries ,the source of knowledge about the wonderful past of the region. Currently here, as throughout the county, has grown an incredible number of restaurants , cafes, motels and others , where you can stop to rest and eat inexpensive meal.
Babur Recreation Park is another amusement park in the center of Tashkent with lots of green spaces and beautiful pond in the center. Babur Park in Tashkent is home to the Seattle Peace Park, a collection of small tiles designed by Tashkent and its sister city - Seattle.
Seattle Peace Park is a heartwarming reminder of the Cold war from children's perspectives. Along the main alley of Babur Park , ceramic tiles along the way display hopes of peace and a better future. These tiles were made in the 1980s by schoolchildren from Seattle , hence the unusual unofficial name of the park . the 10000 tiles of the park are incredibly moving because of their simple, yet timeless message to favor peace and friendship over war and distrust.
Babur Culture and Recreation park in Tashkent is also home the peace Bell is rung every year on International Day of Peace on 21 September as a call for non -violence and cease fire as well as a commitment to the ideals of friendship and concord. As the park is located near the Tashkent University of Pedagogy, you will see lots of students in the park throughout the year.There is also good collection of amusement rides in the park to excite children. Seattle and Tashkent have -rather astonishingly - been twin cities since 1973, long before the relations of the superpowers began to thaw. The partnership between both cities began only 5 years after the Soviet intervention during the Prague Spring in 1968. It was the first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city and it has continued until today.
2. ALISHER NAVOI STATE LIBRARY
The Alisher Navoi State Library traces its history back to 1870, when it was founded by the first governor general of Turkestan, Alexander von Kaufmann. The library's excellent rare book collection with some items dating back to von Kaufmann's original holdings includes many valuable prerevolutionary books and manuscripts. The main collection of prerevolutionary Turki -language newspaper is also housed in the rare book collection. Apart from the main catalogue, there is a very useful catalogue of Uzbekistan -related materials both on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyustan. Another separate catalogue indexes Soviet journal articles relating to Uzbekistan; ask for the " Uzbekistanica " catalogue.
3. CENTRAL STATE ARCHIVE OF UZBEKISTAN
The State Archives provides three main finding aids for its materials. Archivists direct researchers first to the published archival guides. Because the latest edition was issued in 1976 - a time when guides usually provided only minimal information they are not terribly detailed, but they do give the numbers of the main institutional fondly ( archival groupings). For the prerevolutionary documents , scholars can then turn to the card catalogue on the second floor, where all the archival files are listed by subject . For post 1917 materials, bound opisi ( inventories), held in the third floor reading room, describing the contents of each fond. TsGARU's journal and newspaper holdings, which include the most complete suns available of such prerevolutionary papers Turkestansie Vedomosti, are found in the basement.
3. LIBRARIES
Fundamental Library
The Uzbekistan Academy of Science Library contains all the major works of scholarship and much of popular literature produced in Uzbekistan over the past 50 years. Te library is indispensable for finding doctoral and candidate dissertation abstracts defended in Uzbekistan. Scholars can usually receive the materials they request within 30 minutes to one hour at the Academy of Sciences Library, which makes it a more convenient place to work than Navoi. Reading rooms at the library are large and well -lit and since the library occupies a central building in the Academy of Sciences Complex ( Akademgorodok), it can be reached easily from the various Academy institues. Its journal and newspaper collection also fills in some of the lacunae at Navoi and TsGARU.
opening hour : Mon - Friday 8am -6pm
4. CHARVAK LAKE
Charvak reservoir is located on the river Chirchik several downstream from the confluence of the rivers and Pskem Chatcal, Ugamsky between spurs and ridges Chatkalsky Western Tien Shan.
The reservoir is formed by bulk -rock dam height of 168 meters Chorvoq plant. The volumn of the reservoir is about 2 cubic km. The level of the reservoir is significantly reduced in the summer because its waters are used for irrigation and solving problems of irrigated agriculture in the valley Chirchic.
The Settlement Chorvoq incurred during the construction of hydroelectric power station Chorvoq 1964, was originally a completely Russia -speaking- a kind of island of Russian culture in the mountains of Uzbekistan. During the Soviet period there were also school and kindergartens and cultural center and even a summer cinema " Lights Carvaka". Chorvoq the modern village is located in the immediate vicinity of the ancient village Hodzhikent. Hodzhikent means "Holy Town" . Legends say Hodzhikent same age Tashkent. The historic core of Hozhikent -spring with millennial plane trees on the left bank of the Chirchik in the XIX century. There was a giant -one of the largest in Central Asia -the plane tree, which was placed in the hollow of a roadside tea house . and if we assume that the legends are true, there is , perhaps , in the most northern place where footprints of Alexander the Great. Perhaps it is in this amazing beauty of the mountains , he decided to turn back to the south of India, as on the north and east pf Aksu streteched mysterious man's land, held thatm apparently , was pointless.
For Alexander , it was the edge of the known world. For you, a place covered with legends and mysteries ,the source of knowledge about the wonderful past of the region. Currently here, as throughout the county, has grown an incredible number of restaurants , cafes, motels and others , where you can stop to rest and eat inexpensive meal.
