Uzbekistan (UZ) Sirdaryo Province

Image: The Mirzacho’l Steppe, a dry grassland south of the Syrdarya river between Toshkent and Samarqand, was radically transformed by Soviet irrigation projects in the 1950s and 1960s into a farming area.

Summary

Guliston, the capital, is a major town with a population of 80 000. The major towns of Sirdaryo (50 000), Yangier (28 000) and Farhod (25 000) are also in the province.

Detailed Analysis

Sirdaryo Province (Sirdaryo Viloyati) has an area of 5 100 km² and a population of about 750 000 (2004 estimate). Sirdaryo Province is divided into 5 cities: Baxt, Guliston (56 568 in 1989 census), Sirdaryo (23 501 in 1989 census), Shirin (12 298 in 1989 census), and Yangiyer (54 004 in 1989 census), and 9 districts: Boyovut (61 550 in 1989 census), Guliston (capital Dehqonobod, 50 576 in 1989 census), Mehnatobod (capital Qahramon), Mirzaobod (capital Navro’z, 59 272 as Yangiyerskiy region in 1989 census), Oqoltin (capital Sardoba, 39 962 in 1989 census), Sayhunobod (capital Sayhun, 47 132 as Voroshilovskiy region in 1989 census), Sharaf Rashidov (capital Paxtaobod, 40 523 as Il'ichevskiy region in 1989 census), Sirdaryo, and Xovos (capital Farhod, 51 149 in 1989 census). Sirdaryo region and Baxt city were reported in 1989 as Syrdar'inskiy region (72 428). It could not be determined how Mehnatobod district was reported in the 1989 census, and therefore one of the district numbers above includes it. The 1989 population of the current territory of Sirdaryo Province was 568 963.

Sirdaryo area (including Baxt):

Sirdaryo (23 501 in 1989 census) has an area of 10.5 km² and an estimated population of 50 000.
Leningrad (Ленинград) has an area of 2.0 km² and an estimated population of 6 000.
Paxtazor has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 2 000.
Malik has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 2 500.
Druzhba (Дружба) has an area of 1.5 km² and an estimated population of 3 000.
Kumaul (Кумаул) has an area of 1.2 km² and an estimated population of 2 500.
Ittifak (Иттифак) has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 2 500.
Baxt (9 738 in 1989 census) has an area of 1.6 km² and an estimated population of 8 000.
Orlovskoye (Орловское) has an area of 4.2 km² and an estimated population of 6 000.
Sotsializm Nomer Pervyy (отд. No. 1 свх. Социализм) has an area of 1.4 km² and an estimated population of 2 000.
Uzbekistan (Узбекистан) has an area of 1.7 km² and an estimated population of 4 000.

Sayhunobod area:

Sayhunobod (4 877 as Verkhnevolynskoye in 1989 census) has an area of 2.8 km² and an estimated population of 8 000.
Nurota has an area of 2.1 km² and an estimated population of 5 000.
Zarbdor has an area of 1.4 km² and an estimated population of 3 500.

Guliston area (including Boyovut):

Nadezhdinskoye (Надеждинское) has an area of 1.2 km² and an estimated population of 3 500.
Dehqonobod (9 687 as Krest'yanskiy in 1989 census) in Guliston district has an area of 3.0 km² and an estimated population of 10 000.
Uzbekistan (Узбекистан) has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 2 500.
Zarbdor has an area of 1.2 km² and an estimated population of 2 500.
Guliston (54 360 in 1989 census) has an area of 17.0 km² and an estimated population of 80 000.
Ozod has an area of 1.6 km² and an estimated population of 3 000.
Yusupova (Юсупова) has an area of 1.1 km² and an estimated population of 2 000.
Bayaut Nomer Chetvyortyy (отд. No. 4 свх. Баяаут) has an area of 1.2 km² and an estimated population of 3 000.
Bayaut Nomer Vtoroy (отд. No. 2 свх. Баяаут) has an area of 1.3 km² and an estimated population of 4 000.
Krasnoarmeyskiy (Красноармейский) has an area of 1.4 km² and an estimated population of 3 500.
Frunze (Фрунзе) has an area of 1.5 km² and an estimated population of 4 000.
Bayaut Nomer Pervyy (отд. No. 1 свх. Баяаут) has an area of 1.4 km² and an estimated population of 4 000.
Dzerzhinskovo (Дзержинского) has an area of 1.4 km² and an estimated population of 3 000.

Yangier area:

Yangier (28 593 in 1989 census), a city, has an area of 4.9 km² and an estimated population of 28 000.

Farhod area:

Farhod (25 411 as exclave of Yangier in 1989 census) has an area of 4.8 km² and an estimated population of 25 000.

Boyovut area:

Almazar (Алмазар) has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 2 500.
Boyovut (7 592 as Dimitrovskoye in 1989 census) has an area of 4.3 km² and an estimated population of 18 000.
Kirova has an area of 1.2 km² and an estimated population of 3 000.
Mingchinar (Мингчинар) has an area of 2.0 km² and an estimated population of 5 000.

Sardoba area:

Oqoltin has an area of 4.0 km² and an estimated population of 10 000.
Dvedsat' Vtoroy Parts"yezda (XXII Партсъезда) has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 2 000.
Sardoba (11 337 in 1989 census) in Oqoltin district has an area of 1.6 km² and an estimated population of 6 000.
An unidentified urban area 4.5 km W of Gulistan has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 2 500.
Bakhoristan (Бахористан) has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 3 000.

Paxtaobod area:

Uzakova (Узакова) has an area of 1.0 km² and an estimated population of 3 000.
Paxtaobod (10 196 in 1989 census) has an area of 1.8 km² and an estimated population of 7 000.
Sovkhoz Nomer Tri-A (свх. No. 3А) has an area of 1.2 km² and an estimated population of 3 500.