Karakalpakstan
According to experts and the world press, the collection of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after. I. V. Savitsky is the best art collection in the Asian region, has the second largest and largest collection of works of the Russian avant-garde.
It is believed that the name of the city “Nukus” is associated with the number “nine” - and comes from the name of the “Nokis” tribe. Legend has it that nine women were exiled to this deserted area by the Khorezm Shah, and a ban was imposed on them not to marry. But, nevertheless, the ban was violated, and the women gave rise to a tribe that later settled in these places. The country survived the Arab conquest and affiliation with the Mongol ulus of Jochi. It was on this territory that the brunt of the wars during the Mongol-Islamic confrontation fell. On the territory of the Mizdakhan complex there are unique monuments of Nukus - the underground mausoleum of Mazlumkhan-Zulu, the ruins of a madrasah and the mausoleum of Erezhep Caliph, dating back to the 9th-11th centuries. On the Ustyurt plateau, scientists find the remains of caravanserais and wells that served as points on the Great Silk Road.
