Chirchiq

Chirchik

Industrial complex in Chirchiq

Chirchiq (also Chirchik, Chirchik ) is a county- industrial city in the province of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, on river Chirchiq, after whom the city was named, about 32 kilometers northeast of the city of Tashkent. Chirchiq lies at the foot of Chatkal Mountains at 582 meters above sea level and has 145,600 inhabitants ( 1999). The largest ethnic group in Chirchiq set the Uzbeks, followed by Kazakhs.

Chirchiq was founded in 1935, when several villages grew together after the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Chirchiq. Chirchiq represented the first industrial center, which was built around Tashkent after the latter city was the capital.

In Chirchiq existed from 1946-1948, the Soviet corrective labor camp ( Gulag ) Construction -883 and ITL. The internees were forcibly used in the construction of a production facility for deuterium oxide for nuclear reactors. The camp was temporarily occupied by up to 2600 people.

Previously lived in Chirchiq many people of German descent; now but many of them have left the city, why are empty in Chirchiq many houses.

The city is surrounded by intensively farmed environment, especially melons and grapes and other fruit and vegetables are grown. In a large chemical plant fertilizers are produced, other major industries are the production of iron alloys, agricultural machinery and chemical industries.

Chirchiq and its surroundings are an important recreational area of ​​the Tashkent Province. The nearby Chimgon is a nationally renowned winter sports center.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Fljura Chassanowa ( b. 1964 ), chess player
• Stanislav Kravchuk (born 1978 ), freestyle skiers
• Dmitri Nikolayevich Arkhipov (* 1981), freestyle skiers
• Server Jeparov ( b. 1982 ), football player