EU: Ulugbek medresse in Samarkand through time

Samarkand 1911–1972 5 photos of this spot

5 photographs taken at the same spot in Samarkand, spanning 1911–1972 — 5 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A boy in the courtyard of the Tilla-Kari Madrasah on the Registan. Early colour photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, ca. 1911. Source: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

Tilla-Kari Madrasah courtyard, Registan 1911 A boy in the courtyard of the Tilla-Kari Madrasah on the Registan. Early colour photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, ca. 1911. Source: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

EU: View of Ulugbek Madrasa, Samarkand (1960) 1960 The Ulugbek Madrasa, a 15th-century Islamic school on Samarkand's Registan square built under the astronomer-ruler Ulugh Beg, is shown in this 1960 photograph.

EU: Ulugbek medresse in Samarkand 1960 Another 1960 photograph documents the Ulugbek Madrasa in Samarkand, part of the Registan ensemble built during the 15th-century reign of Ulugh Beg, the astronomer-king of the Timurid dynasty.

EU: V koosseisu ekskursioon Kesk-Aasiasse 28. aprill - 18. mai Samarkand (1972) b 1972 This photograph was taken in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, during an Estonian group excursion to Central Asia between 28 April and 18 May 1972. Samarkand, one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, was a major stop on the ancient Silk Road.

EU: Usbekistan. Samarkand. Blick zur Sher-Dor-Madrasa (1972) 1972 This 1972 photograph shows the Sher-Dor Madrasa in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, part of the Registan ensemble built in the seventeenth century and renowned for its tiled lion-and-sun facade.