Pushkin is a station of the
Tashkent Metro
The Tashkent Metro () is the rapid transit system serving the city of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It was the seventh metro to be built in the former Soviet Union, USSR, opening in 1977, and the first metro in Central Asia. Each station i ...
on
Chilonzor Line
The Chilonzor Line (, ) was the first line of the Tashkent Metro
The Tashkent Metro () is the rapid transit system serving the city of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It was the seventh metro to be built in the former Soviet Union, USSR, o ...
. This station is named after poet
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...
. It was opened on 18 August 1980 as part of the second section of Chilonzor Line, between
October inkilobi and
Maksim Gor'kiy.
References
Tashkent Metro stations
Railway stations in Uzbekistan opened in 1980
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