COURAGEOUS MONUMENT

The Monument of Courage was erected in memory of the victims of the earthquake of April 26, 1966. With an amplitude of 8.3, the earthquake was fortunately more destructive than deadly. The commemorative statue rests on a fractured floor, evoking the cracks that crisscrossed the Uzbek capital and end at the foot of a very Soviet-looking shirtless figure protecting a woman and her child. The fresco surrounding the monument illustrates the reconstruction of the capital by workers from all over the former USSR.