Peer Inside Tashkent’s Art-Filled (and Long-Shrouded) Subway (original) (raw)
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- Nov. 20, 2019
Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital, is home to one of the world’s most ornate subway systems. Many of its 29 stations are elaborately decorated with mosaics and chandeliers, the artwork reflecting a range of themes — from the Soviet space program to elements of local history, industry and agriculture.
Until recently, though, it was mostly hidden from the outside world.
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For decades, taking photographs inside Tashkent’s subway stations was strictly prohibited, ostensibly as a matter of national security. But among the recent reforms made by President Shavkat M. Mirziyoyev, who took office in 2016, was the lifting of the ban on photography within the metro.
The Tashkent Metro, which opened in 1977, is one of only two subways in operation in Central Asia. (The other is in Almaty, Kazakhstan.) Trains run from 5 a.m. until midnight, and a single ride costs 1,400 som, or about 15 cents.
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