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Sirdaryo Region Sirdaryo Region (, russian: Сырдарьинская область, Syrdaryinskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Uzbekistan, located in the center of the country on the left bank of Syr Darya River. It borders with Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, T ...

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Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

. It is a district-level city. Its population is 44,200 (2021).

Etymology

The name of the city is translated from Uzbek as ''"new land".''

History

It was established in 1957 as part of the grand Soviet project to cultivate the naturally saline virgin lands of

Mirzachoʻl Mirzachoʻl (russian: Голодная степь, lit=Hungry Steppe) is a loess plain of some 10,000 km2 on the left bank of Syr Darya in Uzbekistan, extending from the mouth of Ferghana Valley on the border with Tajikistan to the east across Sird ...

, a vast area of about 10,000 square kilometres in Eastern Uzbekistan. The shortage of

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water was the main problem hindering the development of agriculture in the area.

Economy

The city has several plants including a plant of building materials, pipe plant, asphalt plant. Yangier also has a branch of

Tashkent Institute of Agriculture and Irrigation Engineering 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 2 ...

, a college of civil engineering and a museum dedicated to cultivation of virgin lands of

References

Populated places in Sirdaryo Region Cities in Uzbekistan Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union Populated places established in 1957 {{Uzbekistan-geo-stub