Uchquduq
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Uchkuduk is a city (pop est 27,000) in the north of the Navoiy Province
, Uzbekistan
. The city's name means "three draw-wells" in Uzbek. It is located at 42°9′24"N 63°33′20"E, at an altitude of 193 meters. Located in the middle of the Kyzyl Kum
Desert, Uchkuduk was a "closed city" in Soviet times due to its strategic open pit uranium
mines, which supplied the raw material for the nuclear weapons in the Soviet military arsenal.
Aeroflot Flight 7425
crashed near Uchkuduk on July 10, 1985.
The Uzbek group Yalla made a Soviet-wide hit named after the city.
Navoiy Province
Navoiy Province is a viloyat of Uzbekistan located in the northwest of the country. The Kyzyl-Kum Desert takes up a large portion of its territory, which is the largest of the provinces of Uzbekistan except for the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic. Navoiy Province borders with Kazakhstan,...
, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
. The city's name means "three draw-wells" in Uzbek. It is located at 42°9′24"N 63°33′20"E, at an altitude of 193 meters. Located in the middle of the Kyzyl Kum
Kyzyl Kum
The Kyzyl Kum , also called Qyzylqum, is the 11th largest desert in the world. Its name means Red Sand in Turkic languages. It is located in Central Asia in the doab between the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and is divided between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan...
Desert, Uchkuduk was a "closed city" in Soviet times due to its strategic open pit uranium
Uranium
Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons...
mines, which supplied the raw material for the nuclear weapons in the Soviet military arsenal.
Aeroflot Flight 7425
Aeroflot Flight 7425
Aeroflot Flight 7425 refers to a Tupolev Tu-154B-2, registration CCCP-85311, that was operating a domestic scheduled Tashkent–Karshi–Orenburg–Leningrad passenger service under the airline's Uzbekistan division, that crashed near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, while en route its second leg...
crashed near Uchkuduk on July 10, 1985.
The Uzbek group Yalla made a Soviet-wide hit named after the city.