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When you get off at the Amir Temur Square station of Tashkent Underground and pass through the pedestrian subway and you will be in the Amir Temur Square.

In front of you will see the famous Monument to Amir Temur. Surrounded before with century-old plane trees, today, the monument to Amir Temur is seen from afar - as recently planted young trees replaced the old ones, creating a green background in the square.

Walking through tracks towards to the Amir Temur monument, you will see this great militant sitting on a horse raising his hand to the sky as if he is blessing the nation. On the monument you will read the wise words of him: "The strength is in justice", inscribed in three languages.

Monument to Courage

The monument “Courage" is a memorial complex that is dedicated to the liquidation of 1966 Tashkent earthquake’s consequences. In early morning of 26 April 1966, at 5:23 a 9 point earthquake took place. The epicenter was at a depth of about ten kilometers in the heart of Tashkent, in an area where ten years later, in 1976, the monument "Courage" was constructed.

The monument consists of a sculpture composition in the center, a stone cube in the foreground and bas panno in the background. A cube of black labradorite split in two. On one side of the cube there is a watch, the hands of which show the time when earthquake had happened. On the other side there is the date of the incident. The crack on the earth extends to the sculpture which depicts a woman with a child and a man who protects by shielding them from the disaster. Relief compositions, which describ the restoration of Tashkent frame the monument.

The Monument of independence

The Monument of Independence (1991), which marks the sovereignty of Uzbekistan, is a large golden globe with outlines of the borders (territorial) of the State. But the engraved territory of the Republic does not repeat the geographical location of the country, as it...