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Olmazor (town)

human settlement in Uzbekistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4062707 ↗
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Olmazor (Uzbek: Olmazor, Russian: Алмазар, romanized: Almazar) is an urban-type settlement in Tashkent Region in eastern Uzbekistan. It is part of Chinoz District. Its population is 6,700 (2016).

History

During World War II, in 1942, the training centre of the Polish Anders' Army was located in Olmazor. Polish soldiers trained there before fighting Nazi Germany. There is a Polish military cemetery in Olmazor.

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This entry incorporates text from “Olmazor (town)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.