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A guard of honor at the memorial.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Russian: Могила Неизвестного Солдата) is a war memorial, dedicated to the Soviet soldiers killed during World War II.[1] It is located on Mustaqillik Maydoni in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It contains the remains of a Uzbek soldier who died in the Battle of Moscow.[2] The body was transferred to the authorities in the Uzbek SSR on May 7, 1975, in time for the 30th anniversary of the end of WWII.[3][4]

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References

  1. ^ Тюриков, Владимир (1987). День за днем: хроника культурной жизни Узбекистана, 1917-1987 (in Russian). Изд-во лит-ры и искусства им. Гафура Гуляма.
  2. ^ "National War Memorial (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier) - Tashkent - TracesOfWar.com". www.tracesofwar.com. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  3. ^ Stronski, Paul (2010-09-19). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. University of Pittsburgh Pre. ISBN 9780822973898.
  4. ^ Тюриков, Владимир (1987). День за днем: хроника культурной жизни Узбекистана, 1917-1987 (in Russian). Изд-во лит-ры и искусства им. Гафура Гуляма.

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