Oybek (Tashkent Metro)

Oybek
Tashkent Metro
Location	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Coordinates	41°17′55″N 69°16′24″E / 41.298686°N 69.273333°E / 41.298686; 69.273333Coordinates: 41°17′55″N 69°16′24″E / 41.298686°N 69.273333°E / 41.298686; 69.273333
Platforms	island platform
Tracks	2
History
Opened	8 December 1984
Services
Preceding station   Tashkent Metro   Following station Kosmonavtlar toward Beruniy Oʻzbekiston Line Toshkent toward Chkalov Yunus Rajabiy toward Habib Abdullayev Yunusobod Line Transfer at: Ming Orik Terminus

Oybek is a station of the Tashkent Metro on Oʻzbekiston Line which was opened on 8 December 1984. Named in honor of the poet Musa Tashmukhamedova, better known under the pseudonym of Aibek. For the first time in Tashkent underground at this station applied column-type platform using earthquake-resistant monolithic structures. Columns station covered with reddish marble and decorated with a ceramic ornament. On the side walls of the stairs that go down to the platform, decorated with panels on the theme based on the works of Oybek as book pages. On one of them depicts the writer. When finishing the station it is widely used in marble, granite, ceramics and other materials.

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