New Bukhara

The ministry of truth.

Beside the beautiful old city is the new Soviet city, through which my camera and I went for a quick wander on a beautiful fresh afternoon. I enjoyed this government  building, which almost perfectly illustrates what I had in mind when reading George Orwell's 1984.

A stadium of impeccable Soviet symmetry.

I also came across a symmetric stadium, and snuck inside to watch a nil-nil draw between Bukhara and Kizil Kum, which pleased me greatly; not because of the nil-nil draw, which was immensely boring, but because I love symmetry, stadia, and of course football. 

Football. More fun to play than to watch.