Nuratau

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Nuratau

a mountain range in Middle Asia, in the Uzbek SSR; one of the western spurs of the Gissar-Alai mountain system. In the south it borders on the Kyzylkum Desert. The Nuratau Range is 170 km long and has a maximum elevation of 2,169 m (Mount Zargar). The range is composed chiefly of schist. It has a flat crest, a steep and rocky northern slope, and a gentle southern slope. It is subdivided by small river valleys. The mountain steppes on the crest and shrub steppes on the slopes are used for pasture. In the valleys of the southern slope are oases with orchards, gardens, and irrigated fields.

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Beginning and ending in the capital Tashkent, you will follow in the footsteps of traders, pilgrims and Alexander the Great, sleep in a yurt in the desert and spend an evening at a home stay with a family in the Nuratau Mountains.

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Turkish side will explore gold in Khurob square, located in the Djizak region, in the mountains of Northern Nuratau. Two other deposits are in the Navoi region.