Nurafshon Nurafshon / Нурафшон | |
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 Nurafshon masjid | |
  Nurafshon Location in Uzbekistan | |
| Coordinates:41°02′N69°21′E / 41.033°N 69.350°E /41.033; 69.350 | |
| Country |  Uzbekistan |
| Region | Tashkent Region |
| Area | |
• Total | 30 km2 (12 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 51,400 |
| • Density | 1,700/km2 (4,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 |
Nurafshon (Uzbek:Nurafshon / Нурафшон) is a district-level city and theadministrative centre ofTashkent Region inUzbekistan. It is also the seat of theOʻrtachirchiq District, but not part of it.[2] It has an area of 30 km2 (12 sq mi)[3] and the population of the city is 51,400 (2021).[1]
Until 2017, the town was known as Toytepa. The townsYangihayot andChigirik are part of the city.
TwoZoroastrian periodossuaries, dating to the 6th century, are kept in theSamarkand museum. It received the status of acity in 1973. Until 2017, it was called Toytepa (Uzbek. Toʻytepa/Tўytepa) and was a city of rayon subordination ofOʻrtachirchiq District.
On August 25, 2017, the Senate of theOliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan at itsplenary session decided to rename the city of Toytepa to Nurafshon.[4]
The city of Nurafshon is located 4 km from thetrain station Toytepa, on thehighway Tashkent - Kokand, 25 km south of Tashkent.
The population of Nurafshon as of July 1, 2018 is 49,731. It is estimated that the town's population was previously over 29,000 and in 1975 it was 17,000.
Important cotton processing enterprises exist in Nurafshon, mostly due to Uzbek-South Korean joint ventures.Fluorspar, the most important source offluorine, is mined at Nurafshon. The city has analuminum ore processing plant, a garment factory,[5] trucking companies, andmanufacturing industries.
In the city there is general secondary school No.1 (formerly named after A. S. Pushkin), which is one of the oldest schools in the city.
The school hasRussian andUzbek language classes, and special attention is paid to the study of foreign languages -English,German,French andKorean.
There is also a general secondary school No.48 (formerly named afterA. P. Gaidar, located on Toshkent Yoli Street), which also has Russian and Uzbek classes.
There is a 28th general educationKazakh-language school named afterAbai Qunanbaiuly.
On the western outskirts of the city (on the road Nurafshon -Tuyaboʻgʻiz) is located Ulkantoytepe settlement, which was severely destroyed as a result of the deployment of a military unit there during theSoviet era.
Thehillfort was explored:
Smallexcavations andarchaeologicalresearch were carried out here. Only a rectangular shahriston with an area of 20 hectares and acitadel in the northern part has been preserved.
Both the citadel and the shahriston are surrounded by defensive walls (enceinte), the latter retaining traces of 4 gates. The thickness of the cultural layer in some places exceeds 10 meters.
The available material allows us to attribute the settlement of the area to the time of the firstcenturies AD, and the blossoming of life - to the IX-X centuries and especially - to the XI-XII centuries.
It is identified with the medieval city of Nuket. Described by eastern geographers in the X-XII centuries A.D. in theKara-Khanid era, it was for a certain time the capital of theIlaq domain, which had its ownmint.
During archaeological research, two ossuaries dating back to the 6th century and belonging to the Era of theZoroastrianism were discovered. They are currently in theState Museum of History of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.
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