Nukus
| Nukus Uzbek: Nukus / Нукус Karakalpak: No‘kis / Нөкис |
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| Coordinates: 42°28′N 59°36′E / 42.467°N 59.6°E | |
| Kintra |  Uzbekistan |
| Province |  Karakalpakstan |
| Indwallers (2004 est.) | |
| - Tot | 260,000 |
Nukus (Uzbek: Nukus / Нукус; Karakalpak: No‘kis / Нөкис; Roushie: Нукус) is the saxt-lairgest ceety in Uzbekistan, an the caipital o the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic. It haes a population of 260,000 (2004 estimate). The Amu Darya river passes wast o the toun.
The ceety is best kent for its warld-class Nukus Museum o Airt.
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History [edit]
Nukus developed frae a sma settlement in 1932 intae a lairge, modren Soviet ceety wi broad avenues an big public biggins bi the 1950s. The ceety's isolation made it host tae the Red Airmy's Chemical Research Institute, a major research an testin center for chemical warfare weapons.
Environmental concerns [edit]
Wi the faw o the Soviet Union an the growin environmental disaster o the Aral Sea, the ceety's situation haes deterioratit. Contamination o the surroondin aurie bi wind-borne salt an pesticides frae the dry Aral Sea bed hae turned the surroondin aurie intae a wasteland, wi vera heich rates o respiratory disorders, cancer, birth defects an deformities.
Sights [edit]
Nukus is host tae the Nukus Museum o Airt (an aa kent as the State Airt Museum o the Republic o Karakalpakstan, named efter Igor V. Savitsky) an State Museum. The State Museum hooses the uisual collection o airtifacts recovered frae airchaeological investigations, traditional jewelry, costumes an muisical instruments, but mair interestingly, displays o the aurie's nou vanished or endangered flora an fauna, an on the Aral Sea issue. The Airt Museum is notit for its collection o modren Roushie an Uzbek airt frae 1918-1935. Stalin tried his best tae eliminate aw non Soviet airt frae this period, an sent maist o the airtists tae the gulag. Baith Savitsky hissel an the collection at Nukus survived acause o the ceety's remoteness.[1]
Nukus is an aa hame tae the Progress Center, Central Asie's finest Inglis-leid institute. Hoosed in a umwhile Komsomol meetin haw, the institute haes received major fundin frae UNICEF.[2]
Climate [edit]
Nukus experiences a desert climate (Köppen BWk) wi simmers that are lang, dry an vera hot, an winters that are short, though quite cauld.
| Climate data for Nukus | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average heich °C (°F) | −0.3 (31.5) |
1.9 (35.4) |
10.6 (51.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
28.7 (83.7) |
33.8 (92.8) |
36.0 (96.8) |
33.3 (91.9) |
27.5 (81.5) |
18.1 (64.6) |
10.2 (50.4) |
2.6 (36.7) |
18.62 (65.51) |
| Average laich °C (°F) | −8.8 (16.2) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
7.6 (45.7) |
13.9 (57.0) |
18.3 (64.9) |
20.8 (69.4) |
18.1 (64.6) |
11.8 (53.2) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
5.95 (42.71) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 10.1 (0.398) |
8.7 (0.343) |
16.4 (0.646) |
19.3 (0.76) |
12.2 (0.48) |
3.9 (0.154) |
3.5 (0.138) |
2.1 (0.083) |
3.0 (0.118) |
8.7 (0.343) |
9.4 (0.37) |
13.6 (0.535) |
110.9 (4.366) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 9.5 | 7.6 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 6.1 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 4.9 | 6.1 | 9.7 | 72.3 |
| Source: World Meteorological Organisation (UN) [3] | |||||||||||||
Notes [edit]
- ↑ Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea, Pantheon (2003). ISBN 0-375-42130-0. p. 323–324.
- ↑ Bissell, Chasing the Sea, p. 325–326.
- ↑ World Weather Information Service – Nukus. United Nations. Retrieved on 5 Januar 2011. .
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Coordinates: 42°28′N 59°36′E / 42.467°N 59.6°E Template:Karakalpakstan
