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Republic Children's Library

A neoclassical mansion of the 1880s near Amir Timur Square, once Tashkent's city council, that has housed the national children's library since 1965.

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About the place

The building began in the 1880s as a mansion in the new, Russian part of Tashkent for the Vadyaev brothers, merchants from Kagan. In 1909 they sold it to the city, the future chief architect Ivan Markevich added a large wing, and it became the seat of the Tashkent city council; it later housed a military school.

Since 1965 it has been home to the Republic Children's Library, which holds about 200,000 volumes. Only the western part of the 1909 extension survives, and the building has been under restoration since 2020. It stands at the corner of Yahyo Gulyamov and Uzbekistan Ovozi streets, about half a kilometre from Amir Timur Square.

Why go

  • A merchant's mansion of the 1880s
  • Former seat of the Tashkent city council
  • Close to Amir Timur Square

Sources (3)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.en.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org

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