TheAmir Timur Square (Uzbek:Amir Temur xiyoboni, Амир Тимур Хиёбони) is the maintown square inTashkent, Uzbekistan.
The predecessor of the square is a park built during the firstgovernor-general of theRussian Turkestan era. The square was at the intersection of two main streets,Moscow Street (nowAmir Timur Street) andKaufmann Street (now Milza Ulugh Beg Street), under the name of Constantinov Square. It was built in 1882 by Nikolai Ulyanov (Ульянов, Николай Фёдорович Ульянов) working underMikhail Chernyayev.[1]
After the 1917Russian Revolution, the square was renamed the Revolution Square. WhileJoseph Stalin's statue was placed in the square during the late 1940s, it was removed due to the October 1961 resolution that all Stalin's statues would be removed. In 1968, a statue ofKarl Marx was erected.
After the independence of Uzbekistan, the square was renamed theAmir Timur Square in 1994, and Timur's statue was placed on the site. Adjacent to the park in the south, theAmir Timur Museum was built in 1996.
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