Alexandrovsky Square (also known as Alexandrovsky Garden), formerly located at the intersection of several major Tashkent thoroughfares, held the remains of the 14 Turkestan Commissars executed during the Osipov Uprising in January 1919. Renamed Kafanov Square during the Soviet era, it became the burial site of M.P. Kafanov, Chairman of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, in 1923. Later, Yuldash Akhunbabayev, the first Chairman of the Presidium of the Central E.. Read more »xecutive Committee of Uzbekistan and then Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR, Sabir Rakhimov, the first Uzbek general, Hamid Alimjan, a renowned Uzbek poet, and A.L. Brodsky, one of the founders and rector of Tashkent State University, were also buried there. A memorial and stele were erected at the burial site. In the 1970s, part of the square became the site of the new Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan, and the area with the graves was renamed "Communards Square." In 1962, an eternal flame was lit at the burial site of the Turkestan Commissars. In 2000, their obelisk was dismantled, and their remains were reburied in Tashkent's communist cemetery. The square was redesigned, and a monument to the Uzbek Soviet poetess Zulfiya was installed. In 1970, the mass grave and obelisk underwent reconstruction, replacing a brick bayonet with a 20-meter stainless steel one and adding four granite stelae resembling lowered banners around the base of the eternal flame.
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