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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[edit] History
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.
[edit] Environmental concerns
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.
[edit] Sights
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]
[edit] Climate
Nukus experiences a desert climate (Köppen BWk) wi simmers that are lang, dry an vera hot, an winters that are short, though quite cauld. Template:Weather box
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea, Pantheon (2003). ISBN 0-375-42130-0. p. 323–324.
- ↑ Bissell, Chasing the Sea, p. 325–326.
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Coordinates: 42°28′N 59°36′E / 42.467°N 59.6°E Template:Karakalpakstan Template:Ceeties in Uzbekistan
