each uzbek region has its own original flatbread, bukhara, tashkent or the firgana valley, but the whole world knows the samarkan one, many generally consider it the most delicious bread on the planet, the shelf life of which is weeks, and if necessary months, tested especially meticulously, 10 days even the aroma of the samarkan flatbread remains. another month it can turn into stone, but you just have to heat it up, it returns the taste, they haven’t checked it for years , there seems to be nothing fleeting here at all, every touch of this city remembers the century that stone behind the stone they put together the geometry of samarkand from blue domes, a mosaic...

a mirror in half and its right part is reflected in the left madrassah of ulukbek and sherdor are like two peas in a pod, although there are 90 steps and 200 years between them. regestan, a miracle born of ambition, an attempt by one ruler to become equal to another, the legendary grandson of tamerlane, to place his own copy directly opposite his great masterpiece. lookbek succeeded in repeating the lines, elements, and architectural delights of the madrasah, but was there even one chance to create once again an eternal illusion under domes. through this ornament

, the drawing seems convex to you, in fact the dome turns out to be flat, this is a visualization , an optical illusion, samarkand, it seems to be woven from legends, like khan’s atlas from silk threads, but among them there is one story that would be enough this city has been around for all of its 2,000 years. the main legend of samarkand lives in the mausalia, but everyone knows its interpretation. in june '41, soviet archaeologists opened tamerlane's grave and the war began. and return the great emperor to place, stalin himself allegedly ordered. on the eve of the battle for stalingrad. land of great names. from here timur ruled his empire. ulukbeg drew a map of the starry sky here, and avice wrote the canon of medicine. and even the main character of ancient oriental jokes traveling on a donkey. were sent to these regions.

the khadjen monument was erected in the middle of the place where one of the most famous episodes of the film about the adventures of the great joker in bukhara was filmed in 1942. that is why in his hand is the coin with which he lured the stingy rich man out of the pond. that's how it is necessary, and you come on, come on! bukhara, the silk road, seems to still flow through its ancient streets, past the bazaar to the caravanserai and small workshops where the famous scissors, which cannot be found anywhere else, are forged to this day. we have scissors in the form of a stork, we craftsmen came up with a tuft, this is for a man’s hand, and this is for a woman’s hand.

it was bukhara that at one time was allowed what was denied to everyone else in soviet realities - to be the custodian of religious sciences. in 1945, the council of people's commissars decided to open a religious school in bukhara.

here now teaching is not limited to spiritual subjects, there is even physical education; in the last century the arab world became a model for the union. they are from the same times as samarkand itself, the sounds of thor and doira at the walls of golden cities, pearls of the east, as if strung on threads that gave their name to the great path. here

they learned to take the thread from the cocoon a little later than china; in the twentieth century, little margelan became the soviet silk capital, whose factory thundered. throughout the country. at the mardeland silk mill in uzbekistan the production of fabrics, new designs and colors is continuously increasing. over the last five years , the production of printed fabrics at the plant has increased 10 times. the heirs of that power even saved the factory machines, which since 1942 have been turned into canvas as white as snow. miracle of this land. from one. cocona gives 800 m 800,000 m of silk threads like this, with 3 kg of cocoon gives 1 kg of solu. and at the end there will be fabric, a technological chain for a hundred years that these drums have been winding the silk thread,

not a single link has been lost here. to cocoon if you share silk, you must warm it up in hot water, the temperature of which is about 100°. actually a silk thread. in cross-section it is not round, but triangular, which is why light is refracted in it and the sun shines. and most brightly, the legendary khan-atlas. it can only be woven by hand on looms assembled according to old drawings. made from threads, each of which is a separately dyed element of the fabric that plays with colors like a rainbow. han satin, the color will be at most less than seven colors will be. like radusa, because, uh, it will be seven times paint hanatlas. the most expensive fabric is dyed in boiling vats, where nut shells give all shades of yellow, pink comes from pomegranates,

and brown comes from ordinary onions. fire and water sometimes create miracles here that no chemistry is capable of; the famous samarkan paper is also born. in boiling water, this is only the first stage of its life, which allows you to carefully remove its bark from the mulberry tree, the basis of future paper sheets, so elastic and strong that 1500 years ago connoisseurs even preferred them chinese, it has long fibers, it’s not necessary, it’s been preserved for more years, so the old quran, another arabic manuscript is already 1,300,700 years old, well... here now they try not to violate the ancient technology in a single element, even the use of mulberry bark in mortars with the help of water mills, and turned into white porridge, it is still manually collected into sheets using an ordinary sieve. samarkan paper

was once considered standard, even in the old world, and was much more popular than chinese paper, it’s all about the ingredient: mulberry fiber gives 1.00 year warranty. i don’t like swedes, finns, i like uzbeks, they start in winter, they start well , this advertisement was funny in the nineties, but that was the beginning of the journey, today uzbekistan produces 35,000 cars at breakneck speed. is changing the economy, which not so long ago was supported only by cotton , household appliances under the uzbek brand are now assembled here, and the manufacturing industry is growing at such a pace that there is not enough electricity, it will probably solve the problem of a nuclear power plant,

a joint project for the construction of which with rosatom is already on paper. the country is starting open up, and not only new ones are built, but old connections are remembered. cooperation in the cultural and humanitarian sphere, and in all areas, in fact, yes, it is moving very quickly. there is a special emphasis on tourism, in the future it should bring the treasury five times more foreign currency than cotton, the creation of new infrastructure, a priority task, the logistical one has already been solved by running high-speed trains from tashkent to all the main cities of the country. the project was named afrosiap in honor of the ancient capital. structurally afrosiyab can accelerate to 250 km/h, but more often it flies 170-190, it

’s still so much faster than by car that for 12 years now tickets to samarkand have not been available every day, yet the symbol of the republic was and is cotton, even if not 6 million tons per year, like under the ussr. fertile land was given over to this crop, the harvest turned into a multi-day national cleanup,

now everything is different, cotton is still the locomotive of the economy, but is no longer the curse of uzbekistan. cotton and the gift of heaven punishment. just 10 years ago , the world's largest manufacturers refused to buy it as a sign protest against the use of forced labor on uzbek plantations. now free... power is banned, sanctions have been lifted, and they have learned to squeeze everything out of cotton raw materials without leaving a trace, even oil. cottonseed oil is unlike any other oil, sunflower or olive, it gives any dish a special taste, and it is also anti-allergenic.

are moving their production from china to uzbek sites. now every new one is recycled. the textile mill is being built as a cluster with a closed production cycle, from field to clothes. the cluster itself grows cotton, itself

woven into a modern style, a signature of high fashion, national flavor, a sign of uzbek designers who are increasingly staging shows in the natural settings of ancient cities. uzbek style is in fashion; once upon a time the whole country was sick of it. in the thirties, the soviet union was covered with skullcaps; they were worn by stalin, gorky varoshilov, and pensioner pioneers. who was the time. counter flows of peoples of cultures, hence the future students of the capital's universities and brought fashion for the unknown in the european

parts, hats, i am a sultan, these boys have parents who are also sultans, vasya is also a sultan, in a rare soviet film of those years they did without skull caps, hardly realizing that this is not just an original cap on the head, it can be read like a passport, three a mug and two crosses. what this means is that this man had five children, children, three sons and two daughters. what about skullcaps, a piece of utensils with two colors. ornament has reached almost every soviet kitchen: pakhtagul, cotton flower, this design was invented by soviet artists specifically for a porcelain factory built in tashkent in 1953, which covered the entire union with bowls, teapots and leggings of recognizable colors. here they now produce 15,000 bowls a day, although mainly for

the local market. in the fall, during weddings , pakhtagul porcelain... is not boring on the shelves. this drawing is already 70 years old, it is exactly the same as it was invented on the day the factory opened. we are proud to have preserved both this production and the cotton flower design. the symbol is very important for uzbekistan. skullcaps, porcelain, cotton, they were recognized uzbekistan is those who were never here, but who truly became close and dear on the day when trouble came. uzbek families accepted 2,000 children who fled the war as their own, and the country was able to thank them a quarter of a century later. the new address is not only in tashkens, dozens of cities invited those left without robes, thousands of families took in the victims. a terrible earthquake

in 1966 almost destroyed tashkent, leaving 300,000 people homeless, but in the same year. his legendary yala was not yet in the project, but as a soloist of the agid brigade, he then traveled to all the komsomol construction sites in tashkent, singing for those who came to create a new city. we traveled, gave concerts, and we saw how they perceive it, listen, and it’s not a case where

they are simply doing their duty. no, this is all very human from the heart. the city is built. again in just 4 years it has become the asian showcase of the country, a real eastern star, 100,000 meoks are burning, doing high things, shine toshken, the star of the east, the capital of friendship and warmth, si yai tazhgen, this tazhgen from the east. tashkent’s oriental fairy tale did not end there; 10 years after the tragedy, the city received a gift that seemed impossible in such a seismic zone: a metro. just as the entire country revived the capital of uzbekistan after the earthquake, so the tashkent metro is being built by

envoys from many union republics. on the escalator from top to bottom, the first lines are only 20 seconds. they laid it very close to the surface so as not to touch the groundwater, it was generally a challenge to build a metro in a city that had just experienced an earthquake, and besides, the number of residents in tashkent was almost reached the standard that gave the right to the metro, the head of the republic was able to convince brezhnevo with one sentence, by the time construction was completed , we would still give birth, the metro was opened on november 7, 77 , just in time for the anniversary of the great october, and the first station...

everything is very expensive, no marble, no granite or money was spared, but now its stations are considered one of the most richly decorated in the world, and named after alisher novai, incomparable, where the architect managed to put 48 domes underground on columns, an invigorating whistle instead of carefully closing the doors probably sounds it is more convincing where... pawn and vanity are not on the list of virtues; here another, hospitality, is much more valuable. a dish that is never cooked for one. and the slotted spoon is the size of a shovel.

300 kg rice, 300 kg meat, 800 liters of oil. there are nearly two hundred varieties of pilaf, each uzbek. he knows how to make his own, unique, changing the varieties of rice, ingredients and the sequence of frying, but the only thing that remains unchanged is his attitude towards what is considered a national treasure here. plov in uzbekistan is more than food, an object of worship, a force that unites people. uzbek is always with him every day birth, wedding or death, it is such an important part of the national culture that unesco included pilaf in the list of intangible heritage of the planet. the heritage recipe, of course, is not specified, there are too many variations, but there is something that is almost always close to the concept of pilaf. rashtan, the ceramic capital

of uzbekistan. the most famous legans, a dish without which it is difficult to imagine pilaf on the table, are made right here, in the city of red earth, which is how, according to one version, its old name rushidon is translated. he's standing right on deposit of unique clay. but only.

color and sound, the unique shine of natural colors and the voice of ceramics, it should only sound like this, take the ligand and hold it like this and we will knock, if such a sound is good, then it is a whole spring. it is believed that the most delicious pilaf is prepared in namangan, firgana valley, perhaps because the best uzbek cauldrons are poured here, and they require sand, which... is not found in any other place, the sand is unique, it is mined only in one quarry near firgana , mixed with graphite, it gives an ideal, very strong shape

that even hot metal does not destroy. there are no mechanized processes at all, everything is done by hand, although about fifty molds are poured here every day, and you need to have time to run to each one with boiling cast iron before it cools down , the whole procedure takes minutes, and after half an hour the goat... the light will appear, all that remains is to heat it up on fire so that the cottonseed oil saturates the metal, this creates an anti-corrosion coating for the cauldron, its thickness is special, and accordingly, the thicker it holds the heat, it will taste better food. the cauldrons are already working for trade turnover, only this workshop sends 50 thousand a year to russia, that’s what they never have time to get there, winter melons. they ripen in huge storehouses in clusters, hanging from the ceiling beams; here they are called refrigerators, although the temperature is above zero all year round, even

when it is -10° outside. when frost comes, we will close all the holes in the walls and ceiling, and once a week we will light a fire to maintain the temperature, so the melons will not spoil until spring. each storage facility overwinters at least 5,000 melons, and there are 20 25, a profitable business, by winter their price will quadruple and will not drop until the new harvest. the main rule of the refrigerator: melons suspended in special wicker nets should not touch each other or the walls, so they can be stored from october to may; by spring the melon will only become tastier. the land of white cotton from golden cities, all the colors of the world are collected here as if on a satin canvas, it seems there is no room for so many miracles, but what about them?

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traffic on a section of the m7 highway in tatarstan opened for passenger cars. the road was closed for more than a day due to heavy snowfalls. the day before there was a large-scale accident, 50 cars collided. there are still restrictions on the movement of trucks and intercity buses. a storm warning was announced in tatarstan on friday. on the territory of the republic there is strong wind, snow, blizzards on the roads.

severe icy conditions, snow drifts in places, several flights were canceled and delayed at kazan airport. at the same time, on four sections of federal highways in penza, samara and in the orenburg region, restrictions on trucks that were previously introduced due to bad weather have been lifted. and now to the news of the last hour from iraq, as reported by the middle eastern media, a us airbase in western iraq came under rocket fire. the message that is coming now. however, saudi television reports that about twenty missiles were fired, while other middle eastern media write about five missiles and say that five missiles fell directly near the base. it is believed that the us air force base was subjected to attack by pro-iranian groups currently operating in iraq. about the consequences.