page_title: Tashkent
section_title: Districts
hierarchical_section_title: Tashkent / Districts
caption_attribution_description: Residential Towers
context_page_description: Tashkent, or Toshkent, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, as well as the most populous city in ex-Soviet Central Asia, with a population in 2018 of 2,485,900. It is in northeastern Uzbekistan, near the border with Kazakhstan.
  Before Islamic influence started in the mid 8th century AD, Tashkent was influenced by the Sogdian and Turkic cultures. After Genghis Khan destroyed it in 1219, it was rebuilt and profited from the Silk Road. From the 18th to the 19th century, the city became an independent city-state, before being re-conquered by the Khanate of Kokand. In 1865, Tashkent fell to the Russian Empire, and became the capital of Russian Turkestan. In Soviet times, it witnessed major growth and demographic changes due to forced deportations from throughout the Soviet Union. Much of Tashkent was destroyed in the 1966 Tashkent earthquake, but it was rebuilt as a model Soviet city. It was the fourth-largest city in the Soviet Union at the time, after Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev.
  Today, as the capital of an independent Uzbekistan, Tashkent retains a multiethnic population, with ethnic Uzbeks as the majority. In 2009, it celebrated its 2,200 years of written history.
context_section_description: Tashkent is divided into the following districts (Uzbek: Tuman):
  At the time of the Tsarist take over it had four districts (Uzbek daha):
  Beshyoghoch
  Kukcha
  Shaykhontokhur
  Sebzor
  In 1940 it had the following districts (Russian район):
  Oktyabr
  Kirov
  Stalin
  Frunze
  Lenin
  Kuybishev
  By 1981 they were reorganized into:
  Bektemir
  Akmal-Ikramov (Uchtepa)
  Khamza (Yashnobod)
  Lenin (Mirobod)
  Kuybishev (Mirzo Ulugbek)
  Sergeli
  Oktober (Shaykhontokhur)
  Sobir Rakhimov (Olmazar)
  Chilanzar
  Frunze (Yakkasaray)
  Kirov (Yunusabad)
caption: Residential Towers
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