Aral-Paygambar
Aral-Paygambar (Uzbek: Payg'ambar Orol; Russian: Арал-Пайгамбар) which means the Island of the prophet. It is an island on the Amu Darya river which separates Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. The nature reserve created in 1960 on the island of Aral-Paygambar on the Amu Darya river near Termez. The square. 3.1 hectares for conservation of riparian forests and the unique population of Bukhara deer. In all there are 150 species of plants, 21 species of mammals, 143 - birds, 25 - reptiles, ca. 35 - fish. Many rare and endangered species, including large and small Amu Darya shovelnose, golden eagles, black storks, jungle cat, dressing, Asian otters, etc. In recent years, due to the reduction of floods and expansion households. activity in the floodplain degradation Nat. complex.
It is also a military zone due to its proximity to Afghanistan. There is a mausoleum of the Islamic and Biblical prophet Zul-Kifl. The mausoleum was built in the XI XII centuries. The mausoleum also includes a mosque, which is associated with cult of the Prophet Zul-Kifl (mentioned in Islam as Dhul-Kifl and the Old Testament as Ezekiel) and with the disposal of the Arab commander Ibn Ishaq Kunadzha (d. 992 / 3),