Built in 1888 in 12 kilometers from Bukhara to serve stations and tracks on the Trans-Caspian railway, the settlement eventually became a kind of embassy town.

In 1892 an orthodox church was established, a parish school was opened and a magistrate's court was founded.

[4] On August 14, 1895, by order of Emir Said Abd al-Ahad Khan, construction of a new palace began in connection with the expected visit of the Russian Emperor to Turkestan.

In the years of establishment of Soviet power in Central Asia and Turkestan Kogon was in the center of stormy revolutionary events.

Commander of the Turkestan Front Mikhail Frunze attached great importance to the Kogon garrison units in the operation to liquidate the Bukhara Emirate.

The settlement, located in the Kogon area at an altitude of 235 meters above sea level, soon became a town of European type.

By the spring of 1980, the situation in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan has not stabilized and it was decided to additional saturation of the 40th Army helicopter units.

The 162nd Independent Combat Transport Helicopter Regiment had to solve a very important task of training crews preparing to be sent to the war in Afghanistan.

One of the stages of the "Relay Race" took place at airfields in Central Asia (in Chirchiq and Kogon).

There was no need for the Flight Training Center, and, according to official data, on December 29, 1988, the 162nd Independent Combat Transport Helicopter Regiment ceased to exist.

In early July 1990 in Kogon permanently stationed there withdrawn from Hungary (Kalocsa) 396th Independent Volgograd Guards Helicopter Regiment of the Order of the Red Star.

In 1991 at the airfield filmed some episodes of the movie "To Survive" with the participation of Vladimir Menshov and Alexander Rosenbaum.

[6] On May 23, 1961, by order of the leadership of the Main Directorate of the Gas Industry under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Directive No.