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Tashkent Metro
Growing up in the 80’s and 90s in Kolkata had its charm. Relatives and friends from other parts of the country would come to Kolkata for a vacation and one thing that they would always try was the Metro subway trains and the Trams. It was much later that Metro started catching up in other…
Tashkent Zoo
Visiting a zoo when traveling across Uzbekistan was never an option in the first place. It’s just by chance that Tashkent Zoo was on the way while I was going towards another tourist spot, so I decided to give this place a look. Russia is famous for its bears, and I was very sure this…
Minor Mosque Tashkent
Minor Mosque is one of the newest attractions in Tashkent. The word “Minor” is pronounced by the locals as “Mee-noor” so do not do a literal English translation of the word “Minor” into something small. Minor is the neighborhood where this mosque was constructed. I was apprehensive about visiting this mosque as it looked different…
Japanese German Cemetery Tashkent
My fascination for WWII has taken me around the globe, and when I was touring Tashkent in Uzbekistan, I had heard about the Japanese and German Cemetery In Tashkent, a cemetery which had graves of Japanese and German prisoners of war(POW). Mind it we were in a country that was once part of the USSR…
Hazrati Imam Complex
Your trip across Tashkent will be incomplete without a trip to the Hazrati Imam complex. This is not just a single large mosque but instead is a collection of multiple buildings. Located in the old part of Tashkent the main building managed to survive the 1966 devastating Tashkent earthquake. This place is also known as…
Lal Bahadur Shastri Monument Tashkent
Tashkent as a city has a tragic connection to India other than the historical past. It is this very city that the former Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri died while in office when he had gone there for a peace summit along with representatives from Pakistan and USSR. To honor the late Prime…
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Subhadip Mukherjee
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I am an award-winning blogger, vlogger, and photographer from Kolkata, India. I have been blogging for over 17 years and I have been featured across major news dailies. My photographs have been used over the years across news portals, newspapers, and various other media. Some of my blogs are research materials often used by students in their doctoral thesis.
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Interestingly, train stations in most former USSR countries are known as #Vokzal and the reason is very surprising. Vauxhall Gardens are very famous in the UK and in the USSR when they were building the railways, the first line in 1837 was between St Petersburg to the Pleasure Gardens and the station was called ‘Vokzal’. From there on, the word Voksal got associated with all railway stations across the USSR.
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I am really grateful for getting to know about this place. I am a traveller interested in historical places and…
This house is open to the public on Jan 23 every year. The caretaker was very nice to let you…
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