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Sergey Abashin

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the European University in St. Petersburg

Author of the monographs "Nationalisms in Central Asia: in Search of Identity" (St. Petersburg, 2007) and "Soviet Village: between Colonialism and Modernization" (Moscow, 2015), as well as numerous articles and speeches. He studies the history of transformations in Central Asia in the 20th century, and is currently actively engaged in migration research in the post-Soviet space. He lives in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Sergey Petrov

Sergey Shaid

Sergey Pogosyan

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Shamil Bakhtiyarov

Shepard Sherbell

Shukhrat Nurmetov

Shukur Askarov

Svetlana Katysheva

Svyatoslav Morskoy ("Of the Sea")

Historian, local historian, philatelist

Real name: Stanislav Balashkin. “I love my Tashkent and can’t stand it when the history of our city is rewritten.”

T. Terentyev

Tamara Sanaeva

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