The Pyongyang of Central Asia (49 images)
For the past 28 years, Tashkent was the capital of one of the world’s most secretive and brutal dictatorships.
Uzbekistan authorities systematically tortured political opponents, jailed religious figures without trial and sent hundreds of thousands of citizens, including children, to forced labour. Locals were not permitted to leave the country, while their paranoid government imposed a total ban on Western culture and foreign journalists.
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Uzbekistan authorities systematically tortured political opponents, jailed religious figures without trial and sent hundreds of thousands of citizens, including children, to forced labour. Locals were not permitted to leave the country, while their paranoid government imposed a total ban on Western culture and foreign journalists.
Following the...
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![Uzbekistan - Tashkent - Uzbek girls taking each other picture inside the Navoi Theatre.<br />
In 1929, amateurs of concert-ethnographic group led by M. Kari-Yakubov was established and later founded the professional theatre. In 1939 it was renamed to the Uzbek State Opera and Ballet Theatre, and in March 1948 it was united with Russian theatre and called as the State Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alisher Navoi. Later, in 1959 the theatre obtained the status of Academic theatre and in 1966 – the status of Bolshoi Theatre,[2][3]<br />
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Designed by Alexey Shchusev, the building of the theatre was built in 1942-1947 and was opened to the public in November, 1947, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Alisher Navoi. During 1945-47, the Japanese prisoners of war participated in the building construction under forced labor.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000isIONFMVRFE/t/125/I0000isIONFMVRFE.jpg)
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