[1] Most of the Romanians in Uzbekistan come from the regions of Bessarabia, the Hertsa region and Northern Bukovina, all of which used to be part of Romania, but also from the Odesa and Zakarpattia Oblasts of modern-day Ukraine and the former Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, where important Romanian communities live.
The Romanian minority of Uzbekistan arrived to this country through several migration waves.
Some Romanians migrated to modern Uzbekistan after being promised lands by the Russian authorities in areas such as the Fergana Valley,[1] with some posteriorly returning while others staying.
The second wave occurred as a result of the Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, after which many Romanians were taken to Uzbekistan, but also to other places like Kazakhstan or Siberia.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, some ethnic Romanians held important positions in the Uzbek Orthodox Community, such as Vladimir Ikim (the first Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia) or Vincent Morari (the current Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia).