Hotel Tashkent - a ten storey building, probably the tallest in the city. This was supposedly the better of the two hotels in the city. However, as I soon found out, there's no running water except between 6pm and midnight. Karakalpak is officially a bilingual city. Signboards are in two languages - Uzbek and Karakalpak.
Government buildings fly flags of the two nations.
Like other political entities in the former USSR, Karakalpakstan actively promotes its own national heroes. Here the most prominent one is Berdakh, the national poet, and one of Nukus' main streets is named after him. I walked around the city central, visiting the Karakalpak State Museum and Igor Savitsky Art Gallery. The former contained interesting exhibits on the history and wildlife of Karakalpakstan as well as the culture of the Karakalpak people. A pity that there were no English captions.