The International High School at Lafayette
Fall 2013
Mr. Joel
Sherzod Musaev
Uzbekistan is located in heart of the Central Asia. When we talk about Uzbekistan we have to look through history of it and suddenly everything will connect to the Soviet Union. Uzbekistan played one of the most important roles of USSR. Uzbekistan was controlled by Soviet Union over 67 years. Uzbekistan’s role was specifically to grow cotton and government used. In Central Asia all countries that controlled by Soviet Union they had their specific job to do. In 1991 August 31 Uzbekistan celebrate great and historical day which is “Day of Independency.” Uzbekistan’s population of 29,559,100 makes it the 44th largest country in the world and the third largest of the former Soviet states – behind Russia (143 million) and Ukraine (45 million). The record of 2012 shows that population of Uzbekistan 29,559,100 million. Uzbekistan is the most populated country in Central Asia. Tashkent is the largest in Central Asia and city populated over 2.2 million. Most of the people live in urban areas. Uzbekistan’s currency had changed twice but kept the same name of currency. The “Som” is the currency of Uzbekistan. In the Soviet Union, speakers of Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek called the ruble the so'm, and this name appeared written on the back of banknotes, among the texts for the value of the bill in all 15 official languages of the Union. The word so’m means “pure” Uzbek, Kyrgyz, and Uyghur. Uzbekistan is one of the rich countries for natural resources. The basic natural resources that Uzbekistan has are natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, and uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum. Gold alongside cotton, is a major foreign exchange earner, exports gold and cotton estimated at around 20% of total exports. Uzbekistan is the world's seventh-largest gold producer, mining about 80 tons per year, and holds