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Lutheran Church (Kirche), Tashkent
A brick Lutheran church of the 1890s on Sadyk Azimov street, designed by Alexei Benois; services are held in German and Russian.
Lal Bahadur Shastri Monument
A bust of India's second prime minister on Shastri Street in Tashkent, where he signed the Tashkent Declaration in 1966 and died the next day.
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About the place
In January 1966 Indian and Pakistani leaders met in Tashkent for Soviet-brokered talks, and on 10 January Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan signed the Tashkent Declaration ending the war between their countries. Shastri died of a heart attack the following day.
The bust by the sculptor Yakov Shapiro stands on a pink granite pedestal inscribed "Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904–1966", on the street that bears his name.
Why go
- A link to the 1966 Tashkent Declaration
- Of special interest to visitors from India
- On the street named after Shastri
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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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Mukhtar Ashrafi House Museum
The Tashkent flat where the composer Mukhtar Ashrafi lived from 1965 to 1975, a museum since 1982 with his manuscripts, photographs and posters.
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Central Park (Telman Park)
A 13-hectare city park in Tashkent's Mirzo Ulugbek district, founded in 1934 and rebuilt in 2018 with fountains, lawns and rides.