Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Maghoki-Attar &
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Sharq (2.1km);
(5km);
Kagan (15km)
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Taki-Sarrafon
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Old Train
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Shevchenko
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See Enlargement
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Stadium
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Small Farmers Market
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Muminov
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Hotel
Varaksha
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M Ikbola
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Airline Booking
Agents (700m);
OVIR 800m)
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Bukhara
University
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sent a larger Russian detachment packing,
back towards Tashkent.
But the humiliated Bolsheviks had their
revenge. Following an orchestrated 'upris-
ing' in Charjou (now Turkmenabat in Turk-
menistan) by local revolutionaries calling
themselves the Young Bukharans, and an
equally premeditated request for help, Red
Army troops from Khiva and Tashkent un-
der General Mikhail Frunze stormed the Ark
(citadel) and captured Bukhara.
Bukhara won a short 'independence'
as the Bukhara People's Republic, but af-
ter showing rather too much interest in
Pan-Turkism it was absorbed in 1924 into
the newly created Uzbek SSR.
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¨Sights
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Lyabi
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Hauz & Around
Lyabi-Hauz¨
PLAZA
Lyabi-Hauz, a plaza built around a pool
in 1620 (the name is Tajik for 'around the
pool'), is the most peaceful and interesting
spot in town - shaded by mulberry trees as
old as the pool. The old tea-sipping, chess-
board-clutching Uzbek men who once
