Museum of Victims of Political Repression, Memorial museum in Yunusabad district, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The Museum of Victims of Political Repression is a memorial museum in the Yunusabad district of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It displays documents, photographs, personal belongings, and scale models of labor camps from the Soviet era, focusing on the years of mass repression.
The museum opened in 2002, near mass graves discovered during the construction of the Tashkent TV Tower. Those graves mark a site where executions took place during the Soviet period.
The museum tells the stories of religious leaders, writers, and scientists who were targeted during the Soviet period. Their lives are documented through handwritten letters, photographs, and personal objects that visitors can see in the exhibition rooms.
The museum is open on most weekdays and visitors can walk through the exhibits at their own pace, since there is a lot to read and look at. A morning visit tends to be quieter and leaves more time to take in everything on display.
During the construction of the TV Tower, human remains and artifacts linked to the mass executions were found underground near this site. Those finds helped confirm the identities of some of the victims, whose names are now recorded at the memorial.
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