Khust (Uzbekistan)
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Khust Чуст |
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 Uzbekistan
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| Province: | Namangan | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 0 ′ N , 71 ° 14 ′ E | ||
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| Residents : | 70,183 (2009) | ||
| Postal code : | 717200 | ||
Chust ( Cyrillic and Russian Чуст Tschust ) is an independent city and also the capital of the district of the same name in the Uzbek part of the Ferghana Valley in the Namangan province .
According to a calculation for 2009, the population is 70,183 inhabitants, the 1989 census showed 46,400 inhabitants. Khust is located about 15 km north of the Syr Darya on the southern slopes of the Chatkal Mountains .
The elevation of Chust to a town took place in 1969. Cotton ginning and handicrafts are of economic importance; Khust is an old center of Tyubetejka embroidery. There is a Bronze Age settlement near Khust .
Chust is the birthplace of the poet and educator Muhammadsharif Soʻfizoda (1869–1937), who in 1913 set up a school of new methods . Today a museum is dedicated to him in Khust. Alischer Burchanowitsch Usmanow also comes from Khust .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
- ↑ a b Large Encyclopedic Dictionary : Chust
- ^ Adeeb Khalid : The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform. Jadidism in Central Asia . University of California Press; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1998. ISBN 0-520-21356-4 ; P. 111