This book chronicles the extraordinary partnership formed in 1973 between the cities of Seattle, Washington, USA, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, located in what was then a republic of the Soviet Union. This was the first US-USSR affiliation established as part of the Sister Cities International organization, which was founded by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956.<\/p>\n
This was the matching of two unlikely cities during the unpredictable times of the Cold War. These two very different cities, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a desert metropolis, and Seattle, Washington, USA, a city by the sea, came together to form the first US-USSR sister-city affiliation. They are 6,200 miles apart, different in cultures and religions, and one of them is 2,000 years older than the other. Yet, during the very height of the Cold War, they managed to strike up an official friendship that inspired many other US-USSR affiliations and that continues to thrive to this day through the auspices of the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This book chronicles the extraordinary partnership formed in 1973 between the cities of Seattle, Washington, USA, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, located in what was then a republic of the Soviet Union. This was the first US-USSR affiliation established as part of the Sister Cities International organization, which was founded by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":91,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[23],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-book","7":"product_shipping_class-local-pickup","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n