Uzbekistan: Playground outside Tashkent Sirk

Tashkent Circus often called the Tashkent Sirk has clear Soviet roots. The circular building was constructed in 1976 during the Soviet era, replacing an older circus structure and becoming part of the USSR’s broader tradition of grand state circuses. Its massive blue-domed design feels unmistakably Soviet modernist: geometric, imposing, and built to make entertainment feel civic and monumental at the same time.  And like the soviet culture, its part abandoned, part still being used.  The circus inside is still very much going, but outside, some of it has not been maintained.