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37-580: The city is best known for its world-class Nukus Museum of Art . The name Nukus comes from the old tribal name of the Karakalpaks, Nukus (in Persian : نوکاث Nūkās, "New Kath "). Nukus developed from a small settlement in 1932 into a large, modern Soviet city with broad avenues and big public buildings by the 1950s. The city's isolation made it host to the Red Army 's Chemical Research Institute,

74-519: A conical hill with a height of 35-40 m. In plan, it has the shape of an open, slightly flattened circle with a diameter of 65-79 m. The walls reach a height of 15 m. Shylpyk was erected in the II—IV centuries as a Zoroastrian dakhma. In the IX—XI centuries, it was used by local residents of the district as a signal tower. Tok-kala (Darsan) The settlement of Tok-kala (Darsan) is located 14 km west of Nukus, on

111-685: A major research and testing center for chemical weapons . In 2002 the United States Department of Defense dismantled the Chemical Research Institute, the major research and testing site for the Novichok agent , under a $ 6 million Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Turtkul city became the administrative center of the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan when the Soviet authorities came to power. However, in

148-532: A scientific and educational function. The expositions also provide knowledge about the history of education and upbringing in Karakalpakstan, about spiritual educational institutions of the past and present (madrassas and mektebahs), about the first Soviet educational institutions, about the history of the formation of higher and secondary education in Karakalpakstan. The Karakalpak State Musical Theatre named after Berdakh (formerly named after Stanislavsky)

185-538: A small natural hill of Toktau. The total area is 8 hectares. The monument consists of three parts — antique, early medieval and burial ground. The most recent study was conducted in 1998 during the educational field archaeological practice of the Department of History of the NGPI named after Azhiniyaza. The topography of the settlement was studied, and an 18 m2 room was excavated in the early medieval part. A human burial

222-952: Is a Russian archeologist and art historian who knew Igor Savitsky personally. He became the deputy director of the Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow, then director of the Roerich Museum . He has also been an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is hoped Mkrtychev will take up his position at the Nukus Museum of Art after travel restrictions resulting from the COVID crisis are removed. Set up initially in Tashkent as an informal group during

259-500: Is a well-known architect in the republic, winner of the Berdakh State Prize Orynbai Toreniyazov. The museum is a treasure trove of the cultural heritage of the people, a mirror of history, which reflects the entire historical path traversed by the people from ancient times to the present day. The Berdakh Museum, justifying its vocation, decorates the city with its original architecture. Studying

296-541: Is located in Nukus , Karakalpakstan . It possesses the world's second largest collection of Russian avant-garde artworks, as well as galleries of antiquities and Karakalpak folk art . In total, there are more than 82,000 items in the museum's collection. The museum was described by The Guardian as the Louvre of Uzbekistan . The Nukus Museum of Art was established in 1966 at the behest of Igor Savitsky , who became

333-516: Is located in Nukus. There are monuments to Berdakh, Ulugbek, Azhiniyaz and others in the city. There are archaeological sites in the vicinity of the city: Shylpyk — the Zoroastrian dakhma — and the necropolis of ancient Mizdakhkan. Shylpyk The ring-shaped structure of Shylpyk is located on the highway 43 km from Nukus in the direction to the south (to Khiva, Samarkand, Tashkent), on top of

370-538: The Khorezm Archeological & Ethnographic Expedition. He later moved to Nukus , Karakalpakstan ’s capital, and assembled an extensive collection of Karakalpak jewellery, carpets, coins, clothing, and other artefacts. Savitsky convinced the Karakalpak authorities of the value of establishing a state museum in Nukus, and when it opened he was appointed its first curator. It was Savitsky who amassed

407-760: The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg . In total, the museum has around 10,000 avant-garde artworks, including paintings, prints, sculptures, and graphics. Nukus Museum of Art has approximately 100 paintings by Alexander Volkov , more than any other museum in the world. Considered to be the father of Uzbek avant-garde, Volkov experimented with Cubism and Constructivism. Just one of these paintings would reach as much as £2 million at auction. The museum also has 1,000 paintings, sketches, and works in progress by Tarasov; and 400 paintings and 1,600 graphics by Stavrovskiy. Ural Tansykbaev , People's Artist of

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444-417: The 1930s and were considered to be degenerate forms of art . The Karakalpak authorities had “some awareness” of what Savitsky was acquiring, but did not restrict his work as a curator. The vast majority of artworks collected by Savitsky were never put on show in the museum. It was not until Perestroika in 1985, a year after his death, and then the independence of Uzbekistan in 1991, that the full extent of

481-713: The 20s, Amu Darya, which was 12 km from the River Bank, was threatened with the flush of Turtkul , which caused the core of Karakalpakstan to move towards Nukus. In 1932 the city was officially founded. It is the center of Karakalpakstan's economy, government, politics and culture. Nukus is host to the Nukus Museum of Art (also known as the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, named after Igor Savitsky ) and State Museum. The State Museum houses

518-802: The Berdakh Karakalpak State Museum, the Berdakh Drama Theater, the Karakalpak State Puppet Theater, and the Karakalpak State Theater for Young Spectators. There are about 200 sports halls and playgrounds in the city, including the Turan city stadium, a racetrack, a swimming pool, a rowing school, etc. « Aral » is a local football club whose home arena is «Turan Stadium». In 2019, the Nukus free economic zone (FEZ)

555-532: The Karakalpak yurt, is also represented here. Karakalpak State Museum named after Berdakh In 1997, in connection with the 170th anniversary of the great Karakalpak poet-thinker Berdakh, it was decided to create a museum named after him. The museum building was built in 1998 next to the Karakalpak State University. The total area of the museum is 1.26 thousand m2. It is a three-storey building with one large and six small domes. The author

592-540: The Shamuratovs including stage clothes, photographs, manuscripts, books, letters. Nukus and the surrounding area is serviced by Nokis International Airport . Nukus experiences a cold desert climate ( Köppen BWk ) with summers that are long, dry and very hot, and winters that are short, though quite cold and snowy, having a very dry type of a continental climate . Due to the Aral Sea and Amu Darya drying up,

629-845: The Tashkent Institute of Pediatrics, branch of the Tashkent State Agrarian University, Nukus branch of the Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Al-Khorezmi, Nukus branch of the Institute of Sports and Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Nukus branch of the Tashkent State Dental Institute), 51 secondary schools, colleges, academic lyceums, 5 boarding schools, 52 preschool institutions and 2 libraries. There are 9 family clinics. There are

666-522: The USSR , is well represented: he was interested in Fauvism and French Expressionism , but was also a war artist and produced designs for the ballet. The only known surviving artworks by Vladimir Lysenko, (including The Bull, which has become the museum's emblem), are all owned and on display in the museum. Many of the artists whose work is exhibited at Nukus Museum of Art were purged by Stalin . Nikolaev

703-498: The artists to the gulag . Both Savitsky himself and the collection at Nukus survived because the city's remoteness limited the influence and reach of Soviet authorities. The documentary film The Desert of Forbidden Art is all about the collection and its history. Nukus is also home to the Amet and Ayimkhan Shamuratovs house museum, a center for Karakalpak music and oral culture. The museum's collection represents personal belongings of

740-524: The best selling Avangard, ostanovlennyi na begu (Avant-Garde Stopped on the Run). Babanazarova was controversially fired from the museum in 2015 but resolved differences with the Art & Culture Development Foundation and was on the interview panel to appoint Tigran Mkrtychev to the post of director in 2019. Gulbahar Izentaeva replaced Marinika Babanazarova as director and curator of the museum. Tigran Mkrtychev

777-738: The city over a proposed constitutional amendment that would make Karakalpakstan no longer autonomous. 19 people were killed by security forces. Nukus Museum of Art The Nukus Museum of Art , or more properly the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitsky ( Karakalpak : I.V.Savitskiy atındaǵı Qaraqalpaqstan mámleketlik kórkem-óner múzeyi , Uzbek : I.V.Savitskiy nomidagi Qoraqalpogʻiston davlat sanʼat muzeyi , Russian : Государственный музей искусств Республики Каракалпакстан имени И. В. Савицкого , romanized :  Gosudarstvennyj muzej iskusstv Respubliki Karakalpakstan imeni I. V. Savitskogo ),

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814-482: The climate has become much hotter and drier since 1960, and health conditions resulting from salt and other chemicals in the air have become more common. The I. V. Savitsky State Museum of Art. The I.V.Savitsky State Museum of Art is located in Nukus, which is the best art collection in the Asian region, having the second largest and largest collection of Russian avant-garde works. The English newspaper The Guardian called

851-421: The collection, and its importance, was realised. A new building was constructed for the Nukus Museum of Art in 2003, and the site has since been expanded with two additional buildings. These included much-needed additional exhibition space and also a purpose-built archive and storage centre. The avant-garde art collection at Nukus Museum of Art is one of the finest in the world, second in size only to that of

888-460: The cultural segment from the III century BC to the present. There are objects of the material and artistic culture of ancient Khorezm, folk and applied art of the Karakalpaks, a small semi-nomadic ethnic group living in the north—west of Uzbekistan and having an ancient history and original culture. The department of fine arts focuses not only the national art school of Karakalpakstan, but also the works of

925-490: The founders of the picturesque culture of Uzbekistan — a multinational team of artists who worked in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. The Museum of Local Lore of Karakalpakstan The Museum of Local Lore of Karakalpakstan in the city of Nukus is one of the oldest museums in Central Asia. The history of the museum dates back about 80 years, and his exhibitions are truly unique and interesting. To date,

962-514: The history, ethnography and culture of the Karakalpaks. Of particular interest is the hall of ancient manuscripts, where written monuments in Arabic, Persian and Turkic languages are preserved to this day. It is also planned to organize special thematic halls of archeology, art and history. It is planned that in the future the museum will become a center for the restoration, conservation and study of written monuments in Karakalpakstan and thereby assume

999-425: The images of these heroes are still preserved in the national memory. In addition to his poetic gift, Berdakh also possessed the talent of bakhsa (a kind of musical art). He was famous for this not only among the Karakalpaks, but also among neighboring peoples: Uzbeks of Khorezm and Turkmens. Taking into account the breadth of the poet's interests and the versatility of his work, the museum has expositions reflecting

1036-402: The museum "one of the most beautiful museums in the world" (Amelia Gentleman "Savitsky's secret Hoard". The Guardian, January 1, 2001). The collection of the Nukus Museum is said to "shed light on the history of Russian art" and "gives a true picture of the artistic life of 1920-1930" (Prof. Hansen-Levet, J.K.Marcade). The I.V.Savitsky State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan traces

1073-428: The museum has more than 56 thousand exhibits, among which there are really valuable and rare ones, for example, the stuffed last Turanian tiger, now extinct. The exhibits are constantly replenished thanks to archaeological excavations, as well as cooperation with various universities and academies. In total, the museum has 21 halls, all of them are divided into themes: nature, archeology, ethnography and modern history of

1110-718: The museum's extraordinary avant-garde art collection, risking his own life and liberty to acquire banned artworks. Marinika Babanazarova succeeded Savitsky as curator of Nukus Museum of Art in 1984. She graduated from Tashkent Art Institute and also received training at the Louvre and British Museum. She presented more than 20 exhibitions in France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, as well as in Uzbekistan. Her essays have featured in five exhibition catalogues, including

1147-702: The museum's first curator. Initially the museum exhibited archaeological finds from Karakalpakstan, including from the Khorezm Fortresses ; copies of classical antiquities; and folk art from Karakalpakstan. The majority of exhibits were collected personally by Savitsky. Savitsky wanted to inspire the next generation of Karakalpak artists, and he began collecting works by modern Central Asian artists. He also purchased artworks by Russian artists who had painted in, or were influenced by, Central Asia. These included works of Constructivism , Cubism , Futurism and Neo-Primitivism which had been banned by Stalin in

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1184-602: The poet's work, Berdakh can be called the first historian of the Karakalpak people. His work "Shezhire" ("Genealogy") is truly a genealogy of an entire people (not only the Karakalpaks), as it contains information about the Turkic peoples as a whole. The poem contains the names of about 300 characters, historical figures who have made a significant contribution to the history of the people. Berdakh has poems dedicated to national heroes, such as "Amangeldi", "Ernazar Biy" and others;

1221-411: The region. Nature halls are very interesting, which are especially popular with children and give an idea of the flora and fauna of the republic. The Department of Archaeology contains models of ancient settlements and objects found at excavations. An interesting exposition of folk craftsmen, with embroideries, woven carpets, jewelry and musical instruments. The traditional dwelling of the local population,

1258-475: The usual collection of artifacts recovered from archaeological investigations, traditional jewelry, costumes and musical instruments, displays of the area's now vanished or endangered flora and fauna, and on the Aral Sea issue. The Art Museum is noted for its collection of modern Russian and Uzbek art from 1918 to 1935. Stalin tried his best to eliminate all non Soviet art from this period, and sent most of

1295-491: Was arrested for his sexuality, Kurzin was imprisoned and exiled for anti-Soviet propaganda, and Solokov was interred in a labour camp. Lysenko was arrested and confined to a mental asylum for much of his life because of his art. Their work was supposed to be destroyed, but Savitsky recognised its artistic and political importance and ensured that it was saved. The Russian painter, archeologist, and collector, Igor Savitsky , first visited Karakalpakstan in 1950 to participate in

1332-481: Was established to "attract direct foreign and domestic investments for the production of import-substituting products that are in demand on foreign markets". This FEZ will be in place for 30 years. Nukus is the capital of the sovereign Republic of Karakalpakstan within Uzbekistan . There has been concern raised over a lack of due process in legal trials in the city. In July 2022, thousands of people protested in

1369-732: Was opened, and bones were found inside a small ceramic molded vessel of the humcha type. It was covered with a brick, possibly taken from the ancient wall of the settlement. The city is home to the Karakalpak branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, several research institutes (including the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography, a branch of the Uzbek Scientific Research Institute of Pedagogical Sciences named after T. N. Kara-Niyazov (UzNIIPN), Karakalpak State University , Nukus State Pedagogical Institute named after Azhiniyaz, branch of

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