On June 21, 2019, Uzbekistan Post issued a series of postage stamps titled "Tashkent Zoo."
The series consists of four stamps and a souvenir sheet. The stamps depict animals living at the Tashkent Zoo, as well as the zoo's emblem. The stamps feature a tiger python, a mandarin duck, a horse, and an Amur tiger, while the souvenir sheet depicts a giraffe.
The issue was created by artist Andrey Kim and designer Elena Kanevets. The stamp depicting the horse bears the animal's Latin name, "Equus caballus," meaning "domestic horse," but all catalogs describe it as a "pony."
Incidentally, this is not the first series dedicated to the Tashkent Zoo; a similar series of three stamps and a souvenir sheet depicting animals and birds was issued in 2017.
The Tashkent Zoo was established in 1924 on the grounds of the former country dacha of the Governor-General of Turkestan. Prior to this, a small menagerie existed at the Governor-General's dacha. The zoo occupied an area of approximately 3 hectares. By the late 1940s, the Tashkent Zoo's collection included over 200 species of animals and birds. In 1994, construction began on a new zoo with landscaped enclosures, and it opened in 1997. The new Tashkent Zoo occupies an area of 22.7 hectares. Currently, the Tashkent Zoo houses over 3,000 animals and birds representing 600 species.
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