Skip to content

Oybek Monument

A seated granite-and-copper statue of the writer Oybek on the Alley of Writers in Tashkent's National Park, facing the Navoi monument.

Ensembles2010

About the place

The 5.5-metre monument by sculptor Ravshan Mirtadzhiev was unveiled in 2010. Oybek, a poet, novelist and translator, sits holding a book of Alisher Navoi, and his gaze is turned towards the Navoi rotunda on the hill above. Since 2017 it has been part of the park's Alley of Writers.

Why go

  • On the Alley of Writers
  • Looks across to the Navoi monument
  • A quiet stop on a walk through the National Park

Sources (4)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.openstreetmap.org

Nearby

  • Hamid Olimjon MonumentEnsembles

    Under 1 km away

    Hamid Olimjon Monument

    A bronze statue of the Uzbek poet Hamid Olimjon on the Alley of Writers in Tashkent's Alisher Navoi National Park.

  • Alisher Navoi National ParkNature

    Under 1 km away

    Alisher Navoi National Park

    A large central Tashkent park with a lake, a hilltop rotunda over the statue of Alisher Navoi and an alley of writers.

  • Chapel of St George, TashkentEnsembles

    Under 1 km away

    Chapel of St George, Tashkent

    A small 1886 chapel over the grave of Russian soldiers killed in 1865, standing in a residential mahalla near the lost Kamolon Gate.

  • Alisher Navoi MonumentEnsembles

    Under 1 km away

    Alisher Navoi Monument

    A bronze figure of the poet Alisher Navoi under a turquoise-domed rotunda on the highest point of Tashkent's National Park.