Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Ўзбекистон Совет Социалистик Республикаси
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State motto: Uzbek: Бутун дунё пролетарлари, бирлашингиз! Translation: Workers of the world, unite!
Capital	Tashkent
Official language	None. De facto, Uzbek and Russian.
Established In the USSR:  - Since  - Until	October 27, 1924 May 13, 1925 September 1, 1991
Area  - Total  - Water (%)	Ranked 5th in the USSR 447,400 km² 4.9%
Population  - Total   - Density	Ranked 3rd in the USSR 19,906,000 (1989) 44.5/km²
Currency	Ruble (Сўм)
Time zone	UTC + 5
Anthem	Anthem of Uzbek SSR

The Uzbek SSR or Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was the name given to Uzbekistan on October 27, 1924. Image File history File links Flag_of_Uzbek_SSR.svg Flag of Uzbek SSR, based on Image:Flag of the Soviet Union. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Flag of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic The flag of the Uzbek SSR was adopted by the Uzbek SSR on August 29, 1952. ... Coat of arms of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic The coat of arms of the Uzbek SSR was adopted on February 14, 1937 by the government of the Uzbek SSR. The emblem was changed in 1992 to the present Uzbekistan coat of arms, which retains many parts of the old... The USSR State motto is a quotation from Karl Marxs and Friedrich Engels Communist Manifesto, meaning Workers of the world, unite!. It appeared in the language of the Soviet Republics in the USSR Coat of arms, by the reverse order they were mentioned on the Constitution of the USSR... The political slogan Workers of the world, unite!, one of the most famous rallying cries of socialism, comes from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelss Communist Manifesto. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Uzbek SSR Categories: GFDL images ... In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative sense of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Tashkent Tashkent (Toshkent or Тошкент in Uzbek, Ташкент in Russian; its name translates from Uzbek to Stone City in English. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Constitutional order The order they were mentioned in the Constitution of the USSR; also the order in which the motto appeared in the USSR Coat of Arms. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... Constitutional order The order they were mentioned in the Constitution of the USSR; also the order in which the motto appeared in the USSR Coat of Arms. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 Russian Federation one rouble coin. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... It has been suggested that leap second be merged into this article or section. ... The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and its constituent republics each had a national anthem (generally referred as state anthem). ... The Anthem of the Uzbek SSR was the national anthem of Uzbekistan when it was an union republic in the USSR. The music was composed by Mutal Burkhanov. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1924, the borders of political units in Central Asia were changed along ethnic lines determined by Lenin’s Commissar for Nationalities, Joseph Stalin. The Turkestan ASSR, the Bukharan People's Republic, and the Khorezmian People's Republic were abolished and their territories were divided into eventually five separate Soviet Socialist Republics, one of which was the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR). The next year the Uzbek SSR became one of the republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин  listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a... Commissar (комисса́р) was an official title used in post-revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union. ... Stalin redirects here. ... Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (April 30, 1918 – October 27, 1924) was created from the Turkestan Krai of Imperial Russia. ... Bukharan Peoples republic flag of 1921-1923 The Bukharan Peoples Republic was a short-lived Soviet puppet state, which governed the former Emirate of Bukhara during the period immediately following the Russian Revolution from 1920-1924. ... In its final decades of its existence, the Soviet Union consisted of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR), often called simply Soviet republics. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

The Uzbek SSR included the Tajik ASSR until 1929, when the Tajik ASSR was upgraded to an equal status. In 1930, the Uzbek SSR capital was relocated from Samarkand to Tashkent. In 1936, the Uzbek SSR was enlarged with the addition of the Karakalpak ASSR taken from the Kazakh SSR. Further bits and pieces of territory were transferred several times between the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR after World War II. State motto: Пролетарҳои ҳамаи мамлакатҳо, як шавед! Official language None. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Colour photograph of a Madrasa taken in Samarkand ca. ... Tashkent Tashkent (Toshkent or Тошкент in Uzbek, Ташкент in Russian; its name translates from Uzbek to Stone City in English. ... Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast was created on February 19, 1925 by separating lands of the ethnic Karakalpaks from the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and Khoresm Peoples Soviet Republic. ... State motto: Барлық елдердің пролетарлары, бірігіңдер! (Workers of the world, unite!) Official language None. ...

In 1928, the collectivization of land into state farms was initiated, which lasted until the late 1930s. 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Collective farming is an organizational unit in agriculture in which peasants are not paid wages, but rather receive a share of the farms net output. ...

In 1937-38, during the “Great Purge”, a number of alleged nationalists were executed, including Faizullah Khojaev, the first prime minister. The Great Purge (Russian: ) is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s. ... Fauzullah Khojaev (1896-1938) (or “Khodjaev”) Born in Bukhara to a family of wealthy traders, Khojaev was sent to Moscow by his father in 1907. ...

During World War II, many industries were relocated to the Uzbek SSR from vulnerable locations in western regions of the USSR to keep them safe. Large numbers of Russians, Ukrainians and other nationalities accompanied the factories, altering the demographics of the republic. The demographics situation was further aggravated by Stalin’s relocation of some ethnic groups suspected of collaboration with the Axis powers from other parts of the USSR to the Uzbek SSR. This included large numbers of ethnic Koreans, Crimean Tatars, and Chechens. This article is becoming very long. ... Demographics is a shorthand term for population characteristics. Demographics include race, age, income, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location. ... The Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar (aka Qırım, Qırımlı and Qırım türkü), Pl. ... This article covers the Chechen people as an ethnic group, not Chechen meaning citizens of Chechnya. ...

During the Soviet period, Islam became a focal point for the antireligious drives of Communist authorities. The government closed most mosques, and religious schools became antireligious museums. Uzbeks who remained practicing Muslims were deemed nationalist and often targeted for imprisonment or execution. On the positive side was the virtual elimination of illiteracy, even in rural areas. Only a small percentage of the population was literate before 1917; this percentage increased to nearly 100 percent under the Soviets. For other uses, including people named Islam, see Islam (disambiguation). ... A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ... World illiteracy rates by country Literacy is the ability to read and write. ...

Another major development, one with future catastrophic impact, was the drive initiated in the early 1960s to substantially increase cotton production in the republic. This drive led to overzealous irrigation withdrawals of irrigation water from the Amu Darya and the subsequent Aral Sea ecological disaster. Cotton ready for harvest. ... High-altitude aerial view of irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara (, ) Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ... The Amu Darya (Darya means river) rises in the Pamirs and flows mainly north-west through the Hindu Kush, Uzbekistan to join the Aral Sea in a large delta. ... Map of area around the Aral Sea. ...

The Communist Party was the only legal party in the Uzbek SSR until 1990. The first secretary, or head, of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan was consistently an Uzbek. Long-time leader of the Uzbek SSR was Sharaf Rashidov, head of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1959 to 1983. Islam Karimov, successor to Rashidov as leader of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan and subsequently head of that party's reincarnation, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), became president of the Uzbek SSR in 1990. In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... Sharaf Rashidovich Rashidov (Russian: ; 6 November (O.S. 24 November) 1917-31 October 1983) Born in the year of the Russian Revolution to “poor peasant stock” in Jizzakh, Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union, Sharaf Rashidovich Rashidov worked as a teacher, journalist and editor for a Samarkand newspaper. ... Islam Karimov Islam Abduganievich Karimov (in modern Uzbek: Islom Karimov, Russian: Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов) (born January 30, 1938) has been the President of Uzbekistan since 1991. ...

On 1 September 1991, the Uzbek SSR was renamed into Republic of Uzbekistan, formally remaining a part of the USSR until December 26, 1991. With the final collapse of the Soviet Union , the Uzbek SSR became the independent nation of Uzbekistan. Karimov has been its President ever since. December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...