Tashkent is the largest Central Asian city in terms of population. It is home to more than 2.6 million people. There are several cemeteries in the city. Most of them are officially numbered and have unofficial names from geographic objects located nearby.

So, the oldest cemetery in the city No. 1 is popularly known as Botkinskoe, named after Botkina Street, on which it is located. The Russian Empire founded it in 1872 after the capture of the city of Tashkent. In 1918, the cemetery archive burned down. Therefore, the exact number of graves in the necropolis is unknown. There is information that in the period from 1918 to 2009, about 340 thousand people were buried here, and this despite the fact that the cemetery was closed for burials for many years and only subburials in existing graves are allowed on it.

From the second half of the 1920s to the early 1960s, there was a section on the territory of the cemetery where Ashkenazi Jews are buried. Most of the graves on it date back to the 1930s-1940s - the period of repression and the massive arrival of evacuated Jews to Tashkent. After the 1980s and 1990s, when Jews left Uzbekistan in droves, many areas were abandoned. In 2001, a census of graves was carried out, and three years later, a public committee was created to save the necropolis.

Cemetery No.2 has the unofficial name "Dombrabad". It is derived from the name of the array in which it is located. Opened in the 1960s. Occupies an area of ​​165 hectares. There are more than 450 thousand graves in this cemetery. There is also a Jewish site with about 15.5 thousand graves.

The European-Jewish or Tekstilnoye cemetery got its name from the nearby industrial facility - the Textile Plant. It operated in the 1940-1980s. The cemetery has eight sections, most of which are 12 rows each. Six of them are occupied by Jewish burials. There is a separate site where Bukharian Jews are buried. There are about a thousand graves on it. There are statistics of burials by year, which shows how the number of the Jewish population of the city changed.

So, in the period 1940-1960s, about 14.3 thousand people were buried in the cemetery. Over the next 20 years (until the end of the 1980s) - 2.1 thousand people, and from the end of the 1980s to 2003, only 581 people.

In 2004, through the efforts of Jewish organizations, an inventory of the cemetery was carried out and all the graves were described.