It is Central Asia’s major training school in the fields of cinema, television, theatre and design.
[1] The institute was founded in June 1945 as theatre and artistic art institute named after Alexander Ostrovsky, with the aim of creating a training centre for theatre for the Central Asian Republics, which included the former Soviet Union states of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Karakalpakstan.
[2] The Uzbekistan State institute of Arts and Culture was established on 4 June 2012 by the presidential decree, merging the Uzbekistan Institute of Arts and the Tashkent State Institute of Culture, which was named after Abdullah Kadiri (Kadiri Institute?).
[3][4] There are more than 1600 students enrolled at both bachelor and master level;[2] and 225 teaching staff[4] providing tuition in both visual arts and performing arts (including cinema).
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