FROM THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL CITIES AROUND THE ZARAVSHAN

One of the fundamental problems of modern history is the study of the history of cities that appeared at a certain stage in the natural-historical process, and the existing ones of great strategic importance in the context of the country's economic development. The article analyzes the history ofthe formation of industrial cities of Zaravshanye, historically formed on the basis of the extraction of natural resources and retaining their productionspecialization, specific social life for many decades, and also highlights the restructuring and reconstruction of these cities in the years of independence under the influence of scientific and technological progress