Nukus
saxt-lairgest ceety in Uzbekistan, an the caipital o the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nukus (Uzbek: Nukus / Нукус; Karakalpak: No‘kis / Нөкис; Roushie: Нукус) is the saxt-lairgest ceety in Uzbekistan, an the caipital o the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic. It haes a population o 312,100 (2018 estimate[1]). The Amu Darya river passes wast o the toun.
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Nukus | |
|---|---|
  Nukus Location in Uzbekistan | |
| Coordinates: 42°28′N 59°36′E | |
| Kintra |  Uzbekistan |
| Province |  Karakalpakstan |
| Population (2018 est.) | |
| • Total | 312,100 |
The ceety is best kent for its warld-class Nukus Museum o Airt.
Nukus developed frae a sma dounset in 1932 intae a lairge, modren Soviet ceety wi broad avenues an big public biggins bi the 1950s. The ceety's isolation made it host tae the Red Airmy's Chemical Research Institute, a major research an testin centre for chemical warfare wappens.
Wi the faw o the Soviet Union an the growin environmental disaster o the Aral Sea, the ceety's situation haes deterioratit. Contamination o the surroondin aurie bi wind-borne salt an pesticides frae the dry Aral Sea bed hae turned the surroondin aurie intae a wasteland, wi vera heich rates o respiratory disorders, cancer, birth defects an deformities.
Nukus is host tae the Nukus Museum o Airt (kent as the State Airt Museum o the Republic o Karakalpakstan an aw, named efter Igor V. Savitsky) an State Museum. The State Museum hooses the uisual collection o airtifacts recovered frae airchaeological investigations, traditional jewelry, costumes an muisical instruments, but mair interestingly, displays o the aurie's nou vanished or endangered flora an fauna, an on the Aral Sea issue. The Airt Museum is notit for its collection o modren Roushie an Uzbek airt frae 1918-1935. Stalin tried his best tae eliminate aw non Soviet airt frae this period, an sent maist o the airtists tae the gulag. Baith Savitsky hissel an the collection at Nukus survived acause o the ceety's remoteness.[2]
Nukus is hame tae the Progress Center an aw, Central Asie's finest Inglis-leid institute. Hoosed in a umwhile Komsomol meetin haw, the institute haes received major fundin frae UNICEF.[3]
Nukus experiences a desert climate (Köppen BWk) wi simmers that are lang, dry an vera het, an winters that are short, tho quite cauld.
| Climate data for Nukus | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average heich °C (°F) | −0.3 (31.5) |
1.9 (35.4) |
10.6 (51.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
28.7 (83.7) |
33.8 (92.8) |
36.0 (96.8) |
33.3 (91.9) |
27.5 (81.5) |
18.1 (64.6) |
10.2 (50.4) |
2.6 (36.7) |
18.6 (65.5) |
| Average law °C (°F) | −8.8 (16.2) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
7.6 (45.7) |
13.9 (57.0) |
18.3 (64.9) |
20.8 (69.4) |
18.1 (64.6) |
11.8 (53.2) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
5.9 (42.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 10.1 (0.40) |
8.7 (0.34) |
16.4 (0.65) |
19.3 (0.76) |
12.2 (0.48) |
3.9 (0.15) |
3.5 (0.14) |
2.1 (0.08) |
3.0 (0.12) |
8.7 (0.34) |
9.4 (0.37) |
13.6 (0.54) |
110.9 (4.37) |
| Average precipitation days | 9.5 | 7.6 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 6.1 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 4.9 | 6.1 | 9.7 | 72.3 |
| Source: World Meteorological Organisation (UN) [4] | |||||||||||||
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