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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR replaced

Friday Jun 23, 1989
Uzbekistan

On June 23, 1989, Gorbachev removed Rafiq Nishonov as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR and replaced him with Karimov, who went on to lead Uzbekistan as a Soviet Republic and subsequently as an independent state.


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