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10 km away
Hazrat Ali Buva Shrine
A village pilgrimage site in Kumushkon, Parkent district, built up from 1982, with a mosque of 2010 and five springs.
Solar Furnace near Parkent
A large Soviet-era solar furnace in the foothills near Parkent, where a field of mirrors focuses sunlight onto a curved concentrator for materials research.
Ensembles1980s
About the place
The furnace was built in the 1980s on a site chosen for its many clear days and stable ground. It belongs to a research institute of the Academy of Sciences and is used to test materials at very high temperatures.
The installation has two main parts: a slope covered with rows of movable flat mirrors that track the sun, and opposite it a tall building whose face is a huge curved mirror. The light from the mirror field is reflected by the curved face and gathered into a small point inside a central tower.
Guided tours explain how it works, and the scale of the curved mirror is striking even from the car park. The furnace sits in the foothills, so the trip combines well with a day in the mountains.
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Holy Trinity–St George Monastery, Chirchiq
An Orthodox monastery in Chirchiq, opened in 1996 around a parish church whose story goes back to the Russian village of Troitskoye in the 1890s.
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New Uzbekistan Park
Park of 104 ha on Tashkent's eastern edge, opened in 2021 around the new Independence Monument, with more than 10,000 trees and shrubs of 235 species.
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