Tashkent - City Built Environment

City Built Environment

  • The one of only two metro systems in Central Asia. (Almaty's is the other one.)
  • The largest city square (Independence Square) in the former Soviet Union, which once held the tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin (30 metres tall) in the Soviet Union. Lenin was replaced in 1992 by a globe showing a map of Uzbekistan.
  • Government, trade union and private medical and dental facilities.
  • Offices of several American and European consulting firms like Ernst & Young Ltd, Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Gravamen Fidelis and Fides LLP.

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