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Nukus Museum of Art
Igor Savitsky's smuggled hoard of banned Soviet avant-garde painting, hidden in a desert town far from Moscow's censors. Roughly 90,000 works, and one of the strangest great collections anywhere.
51 km · about 60 min drive
AsiaTurkmenistanDasoguz
Gubadag
Dasoguz, Turkmenistan · Asia
About Gubadag
Gubadag sits on the route: 20 minutes from Manghit, 58km from Mizdakhan Necropolis.
Gubadag is in Dasoguz, Turkmenistan, with about 17,000 people. The nearest town is Manghit, about 10 km away.
Gubadag is a city in Gubadag District in Daşoguz Province of Turkmenistan. Gubadag is known for its special round meat pie, known as fitchi (Turkmen: "fitçi"; Russian: "фитчи"). The city is located on the border with Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), near Mang‘it.
Until December 1938 the city was named Täzä-KalaRead more
(Turkmen: Täze gala)(English: new fortress). From 1938 until 1949 it was called Town Named for Thälmann (Russian: посёлок имени Тельмана), a russification of the last name of Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944), a German Communist involved in the international communist movement. In 1949 this was abbreviated to Telmansk (Russian: Тельманск). The name was changed to Gubadag in 1993 by Presidential Decree No. 1327.
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Within an hour or so of Gubadag: Nukus Museum of Art (51 km), Mizdakhan Necropolis (58 km).
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Gubadag is in Dasoguz, Turkmenistan, about 10 km from Manghit.
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- Population
- 17,118
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Turkmenistan
- Region
- Dasoguz
- Timezone
- Asia/Ashgabat
- Coordinates
- 42.0795, 59.9496
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2 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
Mizdakhan Necropolis
A hillside of tombs spanning two millennia near Nukus, including a crumbling mausoleum where locals believe one brick falls each year until the world ends.
58 km · about 65 min drive
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