Daryna Antoniuk, “Regulators Fear Russia Could Access Yandex Taxi Data From Europe, Central Asia,” The Record, August 9, 2023, ➝.
Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent 1865–1923 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 39.
“Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent’s First-year Programme,” e-flux announcement for ACDF, September 15, 2025, ➝.
“About CIsC,” ➝.
These efforts culminated in the listing of a further twenty-four structures in 2024; and in the publication of two major volumes devoted to the modernist heritage of Tashkent, including a 1,000-page monolith lead-edited by Tashkent-born architecture historian Boris Chukhovich. See Boris Chukhovich et al. eds., Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI, (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2025), 499–537.
Greg Castillo, “Soviet Orientalism: Socialist Realism and Built Tradition,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 8, no. 2 (1997): 40.
A short propaganda reel celebrating Uzbek hospitality and the “width of the Uzbek soul” was produced by the Presidential Administration and released to accompany the announcement. See “Название «Дружба народов» вернут дворцу и станции метро,” (The Name “Friendship of Peoples” Will be Restored to the Palace and Metro Station), Gazeta, April 27, 2018, ➝; Zukhra Kasimova, “The Shamakhmudovs, Part I: Family and Kinship Metaphors in the Soviet Symbolic Order”, NYU Jordan Center (blog), April 14, 2021, ➝.
Contrary to historical fact, official Soviet “Friendship of the Peoples” historiography (from the 1950s onwards) represented the violent conquest of Turkestan, alongside all other Russian imperial coercive expansions, as acts of “voluntary accession” to the Russian Empire, and this terminology persists in the Russian Federation’s official historiography today; the 1920 Bolshevik siege of Bukhara is celebrated, with racialized imperial glee, in the 1954 film The Crushing of the Emirate (Krushenie Emirata), directed by Vladimir Basov and Latif Faiziyev.
On tourism and gentrification, see Gulnoza Usmonova, “Selling the Silk Road: How Gentrification is Reshaping Uzbekistan’s Historic Cities,” Ajam Media Collective, August 5, 2025, ➝.
The museification of the historical section of Bukhara in the form of the “Bukhara Heritage District,” under the direction of Waiwai design, is one of the direct consequences of the biennial, see “Bukhara Design District,” waiwai, ➝.
Diana Campbell, “Introduction,” Recipes for Broken Hearts, guidebook (Tashkent: ACDF, 2025).
