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Tashkent Earthquake: Soviet Rebuilding and Urban Identity
On February 6, 1966, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake leveled Tashkent, the capital of the Uzbek SSR. While the disaster killed nearly 30,000 people, it became one of the most ambitious urban planning experiments in Soviet history. Moscow dispatched architects from across the USSR to rebuild the city from scratch, resulting in a unique architectural hybrid that blended modernist concrete with traditional Islamic geometric patterns. This episode explores how this catastrophe reshaped Tashkent’s skyline, forced a confrontation between Soviet centralization and local cultural identity, and created a…
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