star of the east, the capital of friendship and warmth, shine on tashke, shine on the point with novostokhip idea. 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 was reviving the capital of uzbekistan after the earthquake, so the tashken metro is being built by envoys from many union republics. it only took 20 seconds on the escalator from top to bottom, the first lines were laid very close to the surface so as not to touch the groundwater, it was actually a challenge to build a metro in a city that had just experienced an earthquake. to moreover, the number of residents in tashkent fell just short of the norm that gave the right to the metro. the head of the republic was able to convince brezhnev with one sentence: while construction is completed, we will have more children. the metro was opened on november 7 , 1977, just in time for the anniversary of the great october, and the first station, of course, received the name of vladimir ilvich. the excit