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Hello everyone, I want to create a megaportal on the Metro systems of the FSU and some eastern European ones (with potentially expanding to cover other things like railroad city transportt etc). Have look at how we wrote the entries for Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev, if anyone is ineterested in starting the Tashkent metro article, please go ahead. Kuban kazak 23:56, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] who vandalize the article and history
what the hell "16th century uzbeks replaced Persian-speaking population"?????? I have historical fact that my ancestors live here for more than 1500 years in my motherland, hometown TASHKENT. Ethnic Tashkent live here from the start of the city.
Setting aside emotions and other stuff, IMHO would agree there's smth to be corrected. My points are: a) historic source indicate the influx of Turkic tribes in the first millenium. b) they also show that the indigenous population was Persian. Those migrating groups who adopted a settled lifestyle and merged with local and linguistically and ethnically Persian population became bilingual in fact. c) another factor to be accounted for is that one should differentiate between uses of the term Uzbek. It can be applied to refer to 1) citizens of the modern Uzbekistan, 2) etnic groups, 3) tribes under command of Shaybani khan. I urge everyone, including my fellow Uzbeks to be more rational and academic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahib-qiron (talk • contribs) 13:01, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] POV paragraph
As edit history for 2007-04-14 shows, this paragraph is POV. On April 25 1966, Tashkent was destroyed by a huge earthquake (7.5 on the Richter scale). Over 300,000 were left homeless. Soviet historians made a great story about "battalions of fraternal peoples” and urban planners from each of the Soviet republics, who “volunteered” to rebuild devastated Tashkent. They did a good job, creating a “model Soviet city” of wide shady streets, parks, immense plazas for military parades, fountains, monuments, and acres of apartment blocks. At that time residents of Tashkent began to realize that they were not being consulted in the planning, or necessarily being hired in the rebuilding. The problem exploded when Moscow announced that 20% of the new buildings would be given to the mostly Russian “volunteers”, who would be staying permanently. The subsequent riots were called the Pakhtakor Incident, after the stadium where the trouble began. The Red Army eventually had to be called in to "maintain order". Ufwuct 10:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The largest city square and tallest Lenin's monument in USSR
In the article it is stated that the largest city square and tallest Lenin's monument in USSR were in Tashkent. Unfortunately the author did not mention the source. The list of "Largest city squares" in Wikipedia-EN does not include Tashkent at all. I googled a little and found claims that tallest Lenin's monument is in Zaporoje, Ukraine.
Does anyone have facts/sources?
- When the city square in Tashkent was build it was the largest in USSR. So was the Lenin's statue. The statue was removed in 1991, but I'm not sure what happened to the city squareBmn187 (talk) 00:54, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Geography
Two facts are incorrect. Altai mountains - incorrect. Tashkent lies at the foot of Western Tien-Shan. Chimgan river - incorrect. The river's name is Chirchik.
