Exercise 1: Answer the following questions.
1. Where is Karakalpakstan situated?
2. What is the population of Karakalpakstan?
3. When were the National Flag and the State Emblem of the Republic of
Karakalpakstan adopted?
4. Is Karakalpakstan the agrarian country?
5. What kinds of corps, fruit and vegetables are grown in Karakalpakstan?
6. What enterprises were established in the republic?
7. What regions besides Karakalpakstan does Takhia-Tash hydro-power station
supply with energy?
8. What plants are there in the territory of the Republic?
9. What Museums are there in Nukus, the capital of Karaklpakstan?
10. What historical monuments are there in Karakalpakstan?
11. What great people lived in this land centuries ago?
12. What higher educational instutions are there in the republic?
13. What do you know about our ancestors?
14. What foreign countries does Karakalpakstan have relations with?
THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Islom Abduganievich Karimov was born on the 30
th
of January, 1938 in Samarkand.
His father was an office worker. After finishing school he entered the Central Asian
Polytechnic Institute and received the profession of a mechanical engineer. Later he
graduated from the Tashkent Institute of National Economy. He has a number of scientific
publications, a doctorate in Economics and also he is the Honorary Doctor of a number of
foreign universities.
Islom Karimov,s working career started at the Tashkent Farm
Machinery Plant where he worked as an assistant foreman and technologist foreman .A
considerable port of his life is linked with the Tashkent Aircraft-Making Plant a major
manufacturer of cargo planes in the farmer USSR, where Islom Karimov worked as an
engineer and leading design engineer.
From 1966 on I, Karimov works as a government employee, Initially at the State
Planning Committee of Uzbekistan where he went All the way through from leading
specialist of a department to the first Vice-Chairman of the State Planning Committee. In
1983 I,Karimov was Appointed Minister of Uzbekistan, in 1986 Vise-Chairman of the
Council of Minister – Deputy Hear of Government and simultaneously Chairman of the
State Planning Committee.
People’s Democratic Party (November 1991) with completely new ideology and
policy. I.Karimov is the current Chairman of the People’s Party.
On the 24
th
of March 1990 I.Karimov was elected President of the session of the
Supreme Council of the Uzbek SSR. On the 29
th
of December 1991th I. Karimov again won
the mandate of the people at the first nation-wide presidential elections held on an
alternative basis. More than 86 pen cent of the constituency voted in his favour.
President I.Karimov is married. His spouse – Tatyana Akbarovna-is a researcher at
the Institute of Economy under The Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. They have two
daughters and a grandson.
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