The State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan is one of the largest in the republic. It contains more than 100,000 examples of fine and decorative arts. This volume invites the reader to evaluate the part of its collection that is somehow connected with the territory of Uzbekistan. These are, first of all, archaeological monuments from the Hellenistic archaeological site of Khalchayan, dated from the 1st century BCE to the 1st century AD, Buddhist sculpture from Kuva and Varakhsha paintings dated to the 7th–8th centuries AD, pottery from Akhsiket, Tashkent and Afrasiab dated to the 9th–12th centuries AD, and tiles from Bukhara and Shakhrisabz madrassahs dated to the 16th–17th centuries. The section dedicated to applied art in the 19th and early 20th century is also quite significant. It presents the best examples of suzani embroidery, ceramics, jewelry and fabrics… The authors also paid attention to modern painting and sculpture, presenting works from the early period of the so called Turkestan avant-garde – canvases by Alexander Volkov, Alexander Nikolaev (Usto Mumin), Nikolai Karakhan and others, as well as artists whose names glorified the culture of the country in the second half of the 20th century.