Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 1.1 km
Ascend 6 m
Descend 7 m

Explore Tashkent in Uzbekistan with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in TashkentIndividual Sights in Tashkent

Sight 1: ВЛ60к

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ВЛ60к Василий Семин / CC BY-SA 4.0

VL60 is the first Soviet main cargo-passenger electric car, launched into large-scale production. In the 1960s, along with VL8 and TE3, he was one of the main locomotives on Soviet railways.

Wikipedia: Электровоз ВЛ60 (RU)

12 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 2: ТУ 7а

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TU7 (ТУ7) - Soviet, later Russian diesel locomotive for gauge 750 mm – 1,067 mm.

Wikipedia: TU7 diesel locomotive (EN)

8 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 3: ВЛ22н

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ВЛ22н

The VL22 is a Soviet DC electric locomotive. It was produced from 1938 to 1941. It served as the basis for the VL22m electric locomotive, the first Soviet large-scale electric locomotive.

Wikipedia: ВЛ22 (RU)

21 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: СОм

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СОм

SO is a Soviet mainline freight steam locomotive of the 1-5-0 type.

Wikipedia: Паровоз СО (RU)

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: ТЭ 52

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TE series steam locomotives are German military steam locomotives, in large numbers received by the USSR as trophies and reparations and operated on the railways of the USSR in the 1940-1970s.

Wikipedia: Паровоз ТЭ (RU)

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 6: Да

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The RSD-1 (DA) is a 1000 hp diesel locomotive produced by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1942 to 1946. The RSD-1 was developed at the request of the U.S. Transportation Corps and is structurally a six-axle version of the RS-1 diesel locomotive. Initially, they were built for Iran, later a significant batch of these diesel locomotives arrived in the Soviet Union, where they were assigned the designation DA. In 1947, the USSR began the production of diesel locomotives of the TE1 series, which were a copy of the DA diesel locomotives. A smaller number of RSD-1 diesel locomotives were operated on the railroads of North America.

Wikipedia: Да (тепловоз) (RU)

42 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: ТГМ3

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ТГМ3 Hiuppo / CC BY-SA 3.0

The SM15 is a Polish diesel shunter used by PKP and industry — where it carried the designation Ls750H. It is based on the Soviet ТГМ3 (TGM3) locomotive.

Wikipedia: PKP class SM15 (EN)

21 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 8: Эм

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E is a Russian and Soviet freight steam locomotive, the first steam locomotive of the 0-5-0 type in Russia.

Wikipedia: Паровоз Э (RU)

17 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: ТГМ1

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The TGM1 is a serial Soviet three-axle diesel locomotive with hydraulic transmission Shunting type 1, designed and built by the Murom Diesel Locomotive Plant.

Wikipedia: ТГМ1 (RU)

16 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Еа

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Steam locomotive E:Steam locomotive E was a Russian freight steam locomotive produced in 1858–1859 for the Nikolaev Railway Steam locomotive E is an American freight steam locomotive produced in 1915–1918, 1943–1947 and used on the railways of the Russian Empire and the USSR

Wikipedia: Паровоз Е (RU)

15 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 11: ТГМ23

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ТГМ23

The TGM23 is a serial Soviet three-axle shunting diesel locomotive.

Wikipedia: ТГМ23 (RU)

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: ФД20

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ФД20 LHOON / Peter van den Bossche / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Soviet locomotive class FD was a Soviet main freight steam locomotive type named after Felix Dzerzhinsky. Between 1932 and 1942, 3213 FD series locomotives were built.

Wikipedia: Soviet locomotive class FD (EN)

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: ПВ38

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PV40 is a narrow-gauge passenger car produced by the Demikhovsky Plant from 1955 to the late 1980s.

Wikipedia: ПВ40 (RU)

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: ТЭ3

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The ТE3 is a Soviet diesel-electric locomotive, built in Russia and Ukraine to 1520 mm gauge. It is a two-unit Co’Co’+Co’Co’ machine. Total diesel power is 2,940 kW. They were built from 1953 to 1973.

Wikipedia: Soviet locomotive class TE3 (EN)

454 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Museum of railway equipment

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Tashkent Museum of Railway Equipment is a railway museum in Tashkent and is the only such museum in Uzbekistan.

Wikipedia: Tashkent Museum of Railway Techniques (EN)

55 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: ТЭ1

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TE1 (diesel locomotive with electric transmission, 1st model) is a Soviet six-axle (type 30 - 30) freight and passenger diesel locomotive with a capacity of 1000 hp, produced from 1947 to 1950 at the Kharkov Plant of Transport Engineering (KhZTM) with the participation of the Kharkov Electric Traction Plant (KhETZ) and Moscow Dynamo. It was created on the personal instructions of I. V. Stalin and is a copy of the American Yes, supplied under Lend-Lease. Not being the first Soviet diesel locomotive at all, the TE1 became the first diesel locomotive in the country to be mass-produced after the war (Soviet production of mainline diesel locomotives had been interrupted ten years earlier, from 1941).

Wikipedia: ТЭ1 (RU)

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