A short look back at a travelogue from the year 1907 by Wilhelm Rickmer-Rickmers When Ella Maillart visited Central Asia, all activities in the Central Asian Soviet Republics were dominated…

On the importance of the Soviet film ‚Turksib‘ The strong positive attention that the film „Turksib“ by Soviet documentary filmmaker Viktor Turin attracted in Europe and the USA is best…

Part II: Egon Erwin Kisch on the new role of women in Uzbekistan against the background of Soviet social reconstruction of society. Read Part I: Egon Erwin Kisch, raging reporter…

An exploration of spaces, people and practices using the example of the region around Samarkand At the beginning of the 2000s, the agricultural situation in Uzbekistan was still mostly unchanged…

The use of urban space in the early 2000s before the start of the tourism boom The more than 2000 year old city was a stage of the old Silk…