Newsletter
A letter from the HD editors
Once a week, we send the best stories, events, and cultural discoveries from Central Asia.
The Second Heart of Tashkent's People — a Photo EssayThe Old City is a popular destination for tourists, a Tashkent "brand" — the very thing travel guides urge visitors to come and see. Yet this is merely the first, superficial layer. Beneath it lies the collective memory of the city's inhabitants, a vast repository of Tashkent's traditions that cannot be reconstructed from scratch, but can all too easily be erased from the face of the city, reduced to dust, plastered over entirely, and thereby condemned to oblivion. In this photo essay, Ildar Sadykov reflects on a place that holds a singular meaning for him.Ildar Sadykov, Maria Maksimycheva#Places#Heritage & Identity