Walk around Tashkent

I have not been to Tashkent for 18 years. Walking around the city, I involuntarily had to compare modern realities with childhood memories.
Every second driver is engaged in a cab. At the same time, the pedestrian does not even need to raise his hand: if you stand on the edge of the road, the drivers themselves begin to wink at the headlights, slow down and offer their services. Taxi is very inexpensive, so public transport (especially the subway) runs half empty.
The city is getting rid of ground electric vehicles. There are very few trams left, the rails are dismantled, while expanding the roadway. There is no more tram park in the northeast. Trolleybuses completely eliminated a few years ago.

Unfortunately, in the center of Tashkent almost all fabulously beautiful centuries-old plane trees (plane trees) were cut down barbarously. Only on some alley there are only a few of them left. After felling, giant trunks and valuable wood disappeared in an unknown direction.

Nevertheless, Tashkent remained as wonderful a city as I remember it. It is very convenient and enjoyable for hiking.

The city is clean and tidy, there are almost no intrusive advertising and illegal construction.

Lawns began to be planted with basil, from which an awesome smell spreads through the streets.

Sellers of souvenirs and antiques on one of the pedestrian streets in the center.

Embankment along the Anchor Canal.

Everywhere is clean enough. There is no rubbish, no abandoned trash, all the streets are well-groomed and washed to a shine. Well, at least in the center.

Almost all Soviet military monuments were demolished in the country. Instead, they install modern memorials, and they are exactly the same in all cities: it’s just a wall and a wooden colonnade. By the way, the columns are suspiciously similar to those that are in the famous Juma mosque of the 10th century in Khiva.

Metal plates are installed on the monuments, where all the dead are listed by name.

Photographing people in Uzbekistan is a pleasure. All open and responsive, no one turns away and does not swear.

The country began to play chess everywhere. This has never happened before. On television, they even play social videos promoting this game.

Central mail.

In Uzbekistan, every inscription in Cyrillic is a masterpiece.

Bottles in Central Asia are called eggplants.

Underground crossing. You can reach the black ceiling with your hand and draw something with your finger. Once in Tashkent there was a heavy downpour and this transition flooded the whole. They pumped out the water, but forgot to clean and paint the ceiling.

Everyone knows a concrete fence with rhombuses (the "fence plate PO-2"), it has become the same symbol of the Soviet Union as a Kalashnikov rifle or faceted glass. I have always believed that in all countries of the former USSR these fences are the same.

But it turned out that in Uzbekistan almost all such fences have local ornamental motifs on the theme of cotton and, moreover, are always colored.

It is interesting why fences, for example, with sunflowers, were not stamped in other regions of the USSR?

Well, and where without going to local bazaars, because this is the heart of any Asian city.

Under the dome of the Alai Bazaar, they made some sort of garbage. Previously, it was always very sincere and crowded.

Alai market began to lose ground. Very few buyers.

The most popular market in Tashkent is Chorsu. He is very handsome in terms of architecture: the giant dome looks like an inverted bowl.

Under the main dome of Chorsu.

Sale of cottonseed oil.

Souvenirs.

Police are driving illegal merchants.

But women who openly sell nasvay are not touched.

These prints are called chekich. They serve to flatten the center of the Uzbek cake and apply a drawing on it.

Tortilla in Uzbekistan is so popular that few people buy regular bread at all. In each region of the country, cakes with their own taste and design.

Naryn is another well-known Central Asian dish. It is like pasta in a navy manner, only in the local manner.

This is Tashkent!

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