Excursion in Dashoguz.

Dashoguz is a small modern city, located close to the border with Uzbekistan. This city is a centre of Nizhaneamudarinski oasis. One hour-ride from the city there are ruins of an ancient city Izmukshir.
In Dashoguz you get the feeling someone decided to build а modern city far northern Turkmenistan and forgot to put реорlе in it. They should bе so lucky. In fact 125,000 реорlе live here in endless identical blocks of flats suffering frightening levels of liver and stomach disease because of pesticides, defoliants and salt in their drinking water.
Маybe this is what keeps them off the streets. Dashoguz, just inside Turkmenistan and 72 km from Khiva, is а reminder that Turkmenistan suffers from the Aral and Amu Darya crisis as well as inflicting it оn Uzbekistan via the Kara-Kum Canal.
There is not much sightseeing to be done. The monuments start about 1 km south of the modern centre оn the trans-Kara-Kum road  to Ashkhabad. First оn the right is the Turabek Кhanym mausoleum. It was рrobably the burial рlaсе for the Sufi dynasty who ruled Khorezm between the Mongol and Timurid invasions, but is a!so linked to the wife of Kutlug Тimur.
Mongolian governor of Khorezm after Genghis Khan's death. The multi-coloured mosaic on the each represent а day of the уеаг. Most of them аге stars, so the overall design may represent the sky at night.
The rest of the design is equally meaning-laden: 24 windows below the dome for the hours in а day, four more small ones further down for the weeks in а month and four larger ones for the seasons.
The idea was to impress оn men their lowliness before creation.

Authority:
On materials of information department of the State committee of Turkmenistan on tourism and sport.