Tashkent 2200
Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia with its history going back to BC times. Next year, Uzbekistan will celebrate the 2200th anniversary of Tashkent city.
For a long time Tashkent has been at the heart of Central Asia having closer ties with Kremlin than the other cities and being the capital of the only Central Asian country that has borders with all other four countries of the region plus Afghanistan. Today, Tashkent is at the height of its beauty. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, many things have changed in the city.
Along with new modern buildings, parks and streets, Tashkent’s historical sites and beautiful infrastructure have been under constant reconstruction, and today they gladden the eyes of city residents and tourists.
We have been thinking for a long time about what we can do to make our own — blog’s and readers’ — contribution to the celebration. We have finally come up with the idea of putting up one photo of Tashkent sent by readers each Friday. Therefore, we are opening a call for photos.
Dear reader, let’s make our own contribution to the celebration of the world famous Tashkent and help to make it even more popular! Please, send your photos to tashkent_photo@yahoo.com. The action will last until the official celebration of the anniversary in 2009.
P.S. The author’s rights will be reserved. We will publish your name with your photo, unless you wish to remain anonymous.
on August 13th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
‘Today, Tashkent is at the height of its beauty’. Well, I don’t want to be negative (and I really like Tashkent) but let’s be honest, its hardly the most attractive capital city in the world. Recent architectural efforts certainly don’t represent any kind of serious creative surge of architecture and design, do they? Sadly Tashkent is ‘world famous’ for almost nothing these days, except political repression and isolation. And as for 2200 years. Well, who needs these meaningless anniversaries? Its just more money wasted.