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Seige of Tashkent
Part of The Russian conquest of Central Asia
The Capture of Tashkent by General Chernyayev, 1890, by Nikolay Karazin
Date April – June 1865 Location Tashkent Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire	Khanate of Kokand
Commanders and leaders
Mikhail Chernyayev	Alimqul  † Syzdyk Sultan
Strength
1,300	30,000
Casualties and losses
25 dead; 117 wounded

The siege of Tashkent was the final major battle of the Russo-Kokand war [ru], fought between the Khanate of Kokand and the Russian Empire.

Background

Tashkent was a key city and center of Turkestan.

Conflict within Kokand allowed Russia to conquer Kokand's subjects in the Kazakh Steppe in 1864.

One month earlier Shymkent had fallen to Russian forces.

As for Tashkent, I beg your Excellency vigilantly and closely to observe everything that occurs in this town, and to assist the moral party that wishes to separate from hostile Khoqand and through your actions to direct the formation from Tashkent of a polity, independent from Khoqand and Bukhara, but a vassal of Russia.

Governor-General of Orenburg Province Nikolai Kryzhanovsky told Chernyayev to form a state independent of the Central Asian states from Tashkent, permitting him to attack the city.

Upon reaching Niyazbek, Chernyayev diverted the Chirchik River, which supplied water to Tashkent.

Upon hearing of this days later, Alimqul sent riders to inform provincial leaders, and immediately rode to Tashkent without reinforcement.

Siege

On May 20 Alimqul was shot and killed.

On June 27 the walls were breached.

On June 29 the last defenders surrendered.

Aftermath

On August 1866, the city was officially annexed after a year of delibertion.

Notes

References

1. ^ Levi 2017, p. 194.
2. ^ Levi 2017, p. 195.
3. ^ Levi 2017, p. 196.

Citations

• Levi, Scott Cameron (2017). The rise and fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the global age. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-6506-0.