Kosmonavtlar ("Cosmonauts", formerly known as Проспект Космонавтов, ''Prospekt Kosmonavtov'') is a space-programme-themed station of the

Tashkent Metro The Tashkent Metro ( uz, Toshkent metropoliteni, Тошкент метрополитени) is the rapid transit system serving the city of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It was the seventh metro to be built in the former USSR, opening in 1 ...

. It honors Soviet cosmonauts such as

Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Tr ...

and

Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova ( rus, Валентина Владимировна Терешкова, links=no, p=vɐlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə tʲɪrʲɪʂˈkovə, a=Valentina Tereshkova.ogg; born 6 March 1937) is an engine ...

, the first man and woman in space. The station was opened on 8 December 1984 as part of the inaugural section of the line, between

Alisher Navoiy 'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, fa, نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer ...

and

Toshkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

. Until 2018 it was illegal to photograph the Tashkent metro, because it also worked as a nuclear bomb shelter.

Design

The architectural decoration of the station is on the theme of space. The metro stop is decorated in bright-colored anodized aluminium. The interior is decorated with blue ceramic medallions with images of Ulugbek,

Icarus In Greek mythology, Icarus (; grc, Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspe ...

Vyacheslav Volkov Vyacheslav Yuryevich Volkov (russian: Вячеслав Юрьевич Волков; born 9 November 1970) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He works as an assistant manager with FC Pskov-747. Career Volkov began playi ...

and

Vladimir Dzhanibekov Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov (russian: Владимир Александрович Джанибеков, born 13 May 1942) is a former cosmonaut who made five flights. Biography Dzhanibekov was born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Krysin (russia ...

and a mural runs the full length of the loading platform, depicting major space-related events and icons such as

Galileo Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced (, ). He was ...

Sputnik Sputnik 1 (; see § Etymology) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for t ...

and Yuri Gagarin. The ceiling resembles the

Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye ...

, which shows glass stars.Details of the Tashkent subway
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Gallery

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References

Tashkent Metro stations Railway stations opened in 1984 {{Uzbekistan-railstation-stub