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Square of Memory and Honour

Tashkent's Second World War memorial beside Independence Square: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Grieving Mother statue and galleries of names.

Ensembles1975; rebuilt 1999

About the place

The memorial opened on 7 May 1975, before the 30th anniversary of victory, around the grave of an unknown Uzbek soldier killed in the Battle of Moscow in 1941; its eternal flame was lit from the one at the Kremlin wall. In 1999 it was rebuilt and renamed.

At its centre now sits the Grieving Mother by the sculptor Ilkhom Jabbarov, modelled on his own mother, whose eldest son went missing at the front. Around it runs an iwan gallery in the Uzbek style, built by masters from several regions, with metal panels listing the names of soldiers from Uzbekistan who died in the war. A guard of honour stands here every 9 May.

Why go

  • The Grieving Mother, a statue with a personal story
  • A gallery with the names of the fallen
  • Next to Independence Square

Sources (5)

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

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