State Museum of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan
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Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Qurolli Kuchlari markaziy muzeyi | |
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Former name | Museum of the Turkestan Military District |
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| Established | 1965 |
| Location | Tashkent |
| Type | Museum of military history |
| Collection size | 8,000 |
| Founder | Government of Uzbekistan |
The State Museum of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Qurolli Kuchlari markaziy muzeyi) is an institution located in northern Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It is under the direct control of the Ministry of Defense and serves as one of its cultural institutions. The museum has over 10,000 pieces of Uzbek military memorabilia, dating back from Great Patriotic War era equipment to military artifacts from the Timurid dynasty. The total area is 3,000 square meters.[1]
It was founded in 1965 as the Museum of the Turkestan Military District of the Soviet Armed Forces.[2][3][4] It served under the Central House of Military Officers. It moved to his current building on 7 May 1975, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the German Instrument of Surrender. In 2010, a monument was erected the monument "Oath to the Motherland".[5] It was unveiled by the President Islam Karimov as a replacement for a Soviet Army that was taken down the previous year. The reasoning behind this move was that the Soviet monument "did not represent the values and the current state of the Uzbek army".[6]