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State Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan
A museum of Uzbek crafts in an early 20th-century house with carved plaster and painted wood interiors, showing suzani, ceramics, jewellery and textiles.
Alexander Pushkin Monument
A bronze statue of the Russian poet by Mikhail Anikushin, unveiled in Tashkent in 1974 and moved in 2015 to the square named after him.
Ensembles1974
About the place
The statue was unveiled on 6 June 1974 for the 175th anniversary of Pushkin's birth. Mikhail Anikushin shows the poet standing in a long frock coat, hands behind his back and head raised, on a tall granite pedestal.
It first stood in a small square on Pushkin Street; after restoration in 2015 it was moved to the square renamed in the poet's honour.
Why go
- Work of the sculptor Mikhail Anikushin
- Made for Pushkin's 175th anniversary
- A landmark of the square named after the poet
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A small artificial lake on the Ankhor canal inside Tashkent's National Park, with two islands joined to the shore by bridges.
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