In June 1989, Karimov held the republic’s top post, first secretary of Uzbekistan’s Communist Party. On March 24, 1990, he became president of the Uzbek SSR.

In February 1976, the head of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic - Sharaf Rashidov - stated that Uzbekistan would supply the Soviet Union with 5.5 million tons of cotton each year, up from four ...

The Tajik autonomous republic was formed in 1924 as part of the Uzbek SSR, but in 1929 it became a fully-fledged Soviet Socialist Republic of the Union. Between 1929-1961, the capital, Dushanbe ...

Initially Tajikistan was founded as an autonomous region: the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) in 1924.

Karimov, who became president of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1990 and subsequently the president of independent Uzbekistan, was an example of a Soviet-bred politician who managed a ...

His father-in-law was Sharaf Rashidov, who ran the Uzbek SSR between 1959 and 1983 in his capacity as first secretary of the republic’s Communist Party. Last summer, it was Komilov’s son, Daniyar, a ...

In December 1990, the Supreme Council of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), which was a part of the Uzbek SSR, adopted a "Declaration on State Sovereignty." ...

Islam Karimov, the Uzbek president, who has died aged 78, ... Karimov grew up and rose to power under the USSR, becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR.

May 19 marks the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide - the day when back in 1944 (from May 18-20), ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, at least 191k Crimean ...