Angren, Uzbekistan

Angren (Uzbek: Angren / Ангрен; Roushie: Ангрен) is a ceety in eastren Uzbekistan 70 mi (110 km) east o Tashkent. It wis foondit in 1946 as a center for the Uzbek SSR's coal industry. It is locatit on the Angren River. A notable industrial toun, it has a lairge construction-materials industrie, a rubber processin plant an a pouer station. Prior tae the collapse o the Soviet Union, the ceety haed a signeeficant Roushien population. The population o the ceety haes declined syne the early 1990s acause o vera puir livin condeetions, unemployment an mass immigration. In 1992 it haed a population o 133,000 but as o 2005 it wis 126,962. Notable native Ilyos Zeytulayev - A regular for the Uzbekistan naitional fitbaa team.