Residential building (Babur Street)
Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Completed: 1974
Designers: Andrey Kosinskiy, Yury Miroshnichenko and Aleksandr Dizik (architects), Nikolai, Peter and Alexander Zharsky (artists)
Genre: Mosaic, Soviet architecture, former USSR
One of the most recognisable of the 400-plus mosaic panels designed by the Zharsky brothers in the aftermath of the 1966 Tashkent earthquake. The person depicted is most likely Ulugh Beg (1394-1449), a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician who spent his adult life in Samarkand.
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