May 19 marks the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide - the day when back in 1944 (from May 18-20 ...

Cotton harvesting, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), 1973 To make up for the shortfall, cottonpickers started putting stones in their sacks, and empty rail carriages were dispatched to Moscow ...

By 1983, Karimov had risen to become the finance minister for the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan, but he would soon lose one of his benefactors. Sharaf Rashidov had been the head of the ...

Initially Tajikistan was founded as an autonomous region: the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) in 1924. In 1929, it was upgraded ...

A few years later, in 1936, it became part of Uzbekistan, constituting 37 percent of its territory. In December 1990, the Supreme Council of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ...

Even as frontiers were chopped and changed, the question of which republic owned what land were for all practical purposes deemed a formality since the Kyrgyz SSR and the Uzbek SSR were both part of ...

Khamraev was born in 1937—at the height of Stalin’s terror—in Tashkent, in what was then the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, in Central Asia. He attended the famed VGIK film school in ...