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 ...

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." ...

In 1936, after much territorial rejigging in the early Soviet era, the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was subordinated to the Uzbek SSR. In 1993, amid the uncertainty of that period, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

His career started in 1939 and during the first few years he worked in the Uzbek SSR. Then in 1945, at only 35 years of age, he became chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kyrgyz SSR.

Founded in the 1940s, Sokh is ethnically Tajik but was given by Moscow to the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Located at the foot of the Pamir-Alay mountains, ...

The Uzbek SSR was founded in 1924, one year before Uzbekfilm. The policies of the anti-Marxist Stalinist bureaucracy brought about the degeneration and, eventually, the destruction of the USSR.