Navoi Theater

The Navoi Theater (Uzbek: Alisher Navoiy nomidagi davlat akademik katta teatri, "Alisher Navoi State Academic Grand Theatre")[1] is the national opera theater in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

In 1929, amateurs of concert-ethnographic group led by M. Kari-Yakubov was established and later founded the professional theatre.

[5] During 1945–47, the Japanese prisoners of war who were captured by the Soviet Union participated in the building construction under forced labor.

In 1996, Uzbek President Islam Karimov installed a plaque at the theater honoring the Japanese people involved in its construction.

The plaque reads,""Hundreds of Japanese nationals deported from the Far East in 1945 and 1946 participated in the construction of this Theater named Alisher Navoi and contributed to its completion.