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Sadriddin Ayniy theatre

Shukhov water tower

Shukhov water tower designed by the famous Soviet engineer and inventor Vladimir Shukhov, the tower is built using his patented metal hyperboloid lattice design. Its lightweight, openwork steel structure allowed for maximum strength and wind resistance while using minimal steel. Built between 1927 and 1929, it originally functioned as a municipal water tower as part of Bukhara's first centralized water supply system. In 1975, a fire destroyed the tower's top wooden cladding and damaged the water tank. It ceased functioning as a water utility after the incident and sat unused for several decades. Reopened following extensive restoration efforts, the landmark has been repurposed into a popular tourist site and observation platform: Features an elevator leading to a top-tier viewpoint offering panoramic vistas over Bukhara's historical center and the nearby Ark. And also houses small dining facilities, a cafe, and a tourist information center at its base.

Bukhara State University

Bukhara State University was established in 1930 as the Bukhara Pedagogical Institute to train secondary school teachers across the region. Over the decades, the institution expanded its academic scope and was officially reorganized into a full state university in March 1992 following Uzbekistan's independence. When the institution was founded as the Bukhara Higher Pedagogical Institute, it originally operated out of the historic Russian-Chinese Bank building in old Bukhara. The building later served as a secondary school (School No. 6) as the university expanded. Today, Bukhara State University's main administration and core faculties are situated on a modern campus located on Muhammad Iqbol Street. It was built in 1935.

Fayzulla Khojaev house-museum

Intourist hotel

Intourist hotel in Bukhara is actually the predecessor to the modern Grand Bukhara Hotel. During the Soviet era, "Intourist" was the state-run travel agency handling foreign tourism, and standard standardized hotels were built under this banner in major tourist hubs across the Soviet Union. The large multi-story high-rise originally operated as Bukhara's premier Intourist hotel before being rebranded and updated as the Grand Bukhara Hotel.

Lunch

Lunch at a local restaurant “Chinor” which opened during 1980s.

School #21 & Soviet-era Mosaics of Bukhara

School #21 by the name of A.Pushkin was built in 1970 and still called as a Russian school.

Bukhara State Technical University

The Soviet industrial zone in Bukhara

The Soviet industrial zone in Bukhara developed primarily between the 1930s and the 1970s–80s as part of the Soviet Union's state-driven industrialization strategy for Central Asia. Because the central historic quarter of Bukhara was preserved as an architectural core, modern industrial facilities were established on the outer perimeters of the city—principally in the eastern, southern, and north-western industrial belts.

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