Museum · Gulistan
Sirdaryo Regional Museum of History and Culture
The story of the Hungry Steppe under one roof
Culture & arts · Gulistan
Alim Khojaev Sirdaryo Regional Music and Drama Theatre
A regional theatre founded in 1974, based since 1984 in a 730-seat building in central Gulistan and staging everything from Shakespeare to Hamza.
Photo: Muzaffar Murodovich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The theatre
The theatre was founded in 1974 and opened its first season in 1975 with Love by Abdulla Qahhor. Its company was formed mainly from graduates of the Institute of Theatre and Fine Arts. In 1977 it was named after the statesman Alim Khojaev, and in 1984 it moved into a new 730-seat building with a main and a small auditorium.
Its repertoire has ranged from world classics — Shakespeare’s Richard III and King Lear, Molière and Chekhov — to Uzbek plays by Hamza, Abdulla Qahhor and Gafur Gulyam’s The Naughty Boy.
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Temple & church · Gulistan
St Nicholas Church
A mud-brick church built in wartime
Mosque · Gulistan
Gulistan Jome Mosque
The city’s main mosque
Nature · Sardoba District
Sardoba Reservoir
A new “sea” in the middle of the steppe
Nature · Sardoba District
Hungry Steppe (Mirzachul)
From waterless steppe to cotton country