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Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Friday, May 22, 2020

Pre-Soviet Uzbekistan Captured In Perfect Colour

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RFE/RL’s photographer, Amos Chapple, recently published a fascinating photo essay about a 1907 trip to Uzbekistan by Russian photographer Se...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Life on the Margins: The Lyuli People of Uzbekistan

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A young man from the Lyuli community in Uzbekistan's southern province of Surxondaryo. Image: Aleksandr Barkovsky Managing editor o...
Monday, February 3, 2020

A Journey through Uzbek National Identity on the Tashkent Metro - #2

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1979 stamp celebrating Lenin Square metro station, Tashkent This is the second part of Filip Noubel's interesting perspectives on Ta...
Monday, January 20, 2020

A Journey through Uzbek National Identity on the Tashkent Metro - #1

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Ceiling chandeliers Buyuk Ipak Yoli (formerly Maxim Gorky) station. Image: Richard Marshall Tourism is booming in Uzbekistan. One of th...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Georgia: State Silk Museum, Tbilisi

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An old postcard of the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi. It looks very much the same today. On the left bank of the Mtkvari river, Tbilisi, i...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Termez, Uzbekistan: Ancient Buddhist Mural Sheds Light on Early Buddhist Diaspora

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Detail of Buddhist mural discovered at Kara Tepe, near Termez Experts say that a strikingly vivid colored mural found in southern Uzbeki...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Georgia: Soviet Modernist Mosaics from 1960 to 1990

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Former haberdashery factory. Bordschomis kutscha 2, Chaschuri. Artist: Wiktor Tschumburidse, 1970s Travellers on Uzbek Journeys tours, ...
Monday, September 10, 2018

On the Importance of Being Soviet, Part #1

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On the train from Astana to Almaty. Image: David Trilling This thoughtful piece by Dr Alexander Morrison was originally published on Eu...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Death of Uzbek Film Maker Shukhrat Abbasov

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Scene from The Whole Mahalla Is Talking about It One of the greats of Uzbek cinema, Shukhrat Abbasov, died recently in Tashkent, aged 87...