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Shahidlar Khotirasi Memorial
A memorial park on both banks of the Bozsu canal in Tashkent, at a ravine where thousands were shot during the Soviet repressions.
State Museum of Victims of Repression
A museum in the Shahidlar Khotirasi memorial in Tashkent that tells of political repression in Uzbekistan from the 1860s to the 1950s.
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About the place
Founded in 2002, the museum stands at the edge of the rotunda in the Shahidlar Khotirasi memorial park, in a domed building in traditional style. It traces repression in Uzbekistan from the Russian conquest in the 1860s through the Soviet decades, with a focus on the 1930s purges.
The displays are built around photographs, documents and personal belongings of people who were arrested or killed, including many writers and scholars. The exhibition was renewed in 2008 and the museum was reorganised as a state museum after 2017; pair it with a walk through the memorial park.
Why go
- Personal stories of people lost to repression
- Inside the Shahidlar Khotirasi memorial park
- Covers the 1860s to the 1950s
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