Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Experience Tashkent in Uzbekistan in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in TashkentIndividual Sights in TashkentSight 1: ВЛ60к
VL60 is the first Soviet mainline AC freight and passenger electric locomotive launched into large-scale production. In the 1960s, along with VL8 and TE3, it was one of the main locomotives on Soviet railways.
Sight 2: ТУ 7а
TU7 (ТУ7) - Soviet, later Russian diesel locomotive for gauge 750 mm – 1,067 mm.
Sight 3: ВЛ22н
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.
Sight 4: СОм
SO is a Soviet mainline freight steam locomotive of the 1-5-0 type.
Sight 5: ТЭ 52
Steam locomotives of the TE series are German military steam locomotives, received in large numbers by the USSR as trophies and reparations and operated on the railways of the USSR in the 1940s-1970s.
Sight 6: Да
The RSD-1 (DA) is a diesel locomotive of the 3o-3o type with a capacity of 1000 hp, 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 entered the Soviet Union, where they were assigned the designation DA. In 1947, the USSR began the production of diesel locomotives of the TE1, TEM2, TGM3 series, which were a copy of the DA diesel locomotives. In smaller numbers, RSD-1 diesel locomotives were operated on the railways of North America.
Sight 7: ТГМ3
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.
Sight 8: Эм
E is a Russian and Soviet freight steam locomotive, the first steam locomotive of the 0-5-0 type in Russia.
Sight 9: ТГМ1
TGM1 is a serial Soviet three-axle diesel locomotive with hydraulic transmission Shunting type 1, designed and built by the Murom Diesel Locomotive Plant.
Sight 10: Еа
Steam locomotive E: Steam locomotive E is a Russian freight steam locomotive produced in 1858-1859 for the Nikolaev Railway Steam locomotive E was an American freight steam locomotive produced in 1915-1918, 1943-1947 and used on the railways of the Russian Empire and the USSR
Sight 11: ТГМ23
TGM23 is a serial Soviet three-axle shunting diesel locomotive.
Sight 12: ТГК2
TGK2 is a large-scale Soviet two-axle industrial diesel locomotive with hydraulic transmission Kaluga type 2., built at the Kaluga Machine-Building Plant.
Sight 13: 9п
Steam locomotive 9P is a shunting tank steam locomotive of the 0-3-0 type, produced in the Soviet Union from 1935 to 1957. The last Soviet steam locomotive of normal gauge.
Sight 14: Су
Su is a Soviet passenger steam locomotive of the 1-3-1 type, produced from 1924 to 1951.
Sight 15: КЧ-4
Narrow-gauge steam locomotives Kč4 were built from 1949 to 1951 in Czechoslovakia at the Škoda factories. These were vehicles similar to the Pt-4, Kf4, Kv4, Kp4 and VP4.
Sight 16: П36
P36 is a Soviet mainline passenger steam locomotive produced by the Kolomensky Zavod from 1950 to 1956. In terms of power, it was equivalent to a steam locomotive of the IS series, but had a load from the axles on the rails of no more than 18 tons, thanks to which it could be operated on the vast majority of Soviet railways, replacing steam locomotives of the Su series and noticeably increasing the weight of passenger trains. The last steam locomotive of the series (P36-0251) was the last steam locomotive of the Kolomensky Zavod and the last passenger steam locomotive produced in the USSR.
Sight 17: Museum of railway equipment
Tashkent Museum of Railway Equipment is a railway museum in Tashkent and is the only such museum in Uzbekistan.
Sight 18: ТЭ1
TE1 (diesel locomotive with electric transmission, 1st type) is a Soviet six-axle (type 30 - 30) cargo-passenger diesel locomotive with a capacity of 1000 hp, produced from 1947 to 1950 at the Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant (HZTM) with the participation of the Kharkov Electric Traction Plant (KHTZ) and the 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, since 1941).
Sight 19: ФД20
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.
Sight 20: ПВ38
The PV40 car is a narrow-gauge passenger car produced by the Demikhovsky Plant from 1955 to the late 1980s.
Sight 21: 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.
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