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The Soviet Toponymy Project: How Moscow Renamed Uzbekistan
In this episode of The Story of Uzbekistan, Lucas and Luna explore the Soviet Union's systematic renaming of cities, towns, and streets across Uzbekistan—a project of linguistic and political engineering that sought to erase the region's Persian and Turkic toponyms. Focusing on the 1920s–1950s, they discuss the original names of places like Tashkent (Chachkent), Samarkand (Marakanda), and Bukhara (Numijkat), and how Soviet ideologues replaced them with Russian-derived or ideologically charged names. The conversation touches on the role of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the creation…
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