Useful information

Telephone Numbers of Information

Call centre inquiry - 009, 09, and 064

International call centre inqiry - 144-39-31, 139-49-10 (Tashkent).
Tashkent airport inqiry - 06, 006, 54-14-89.
Yellow pages inqiry - 059.
Weather forecast - 001.

Emergency services

Ambulance - 03
Tashkent international medical clinic (TIMC) – 185-60-93 (ambulance), 120-60-92 or 120-6093

Money in Uzbekistan

Soum (S, UZS) is equal to 100 tiin. There are bills for 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000 soum and coins for 1, 3, 5, 20, and 50 tiim, but coins and bills of small equity are rarely used.

Banks and currency exchange

Banks work Monday through Friday from 9:30a.m. until 5:30p.m.

You can exchange currency in National Bank offices and specialized currency exchange offices in some hotels.  Currency exchange operations performed with physical persons are formally prohibited by law (there is a great risk of fraud in performing currency exchange operations outside of officially authorized institutions).  Many hotels and transportation agencies accept payments for their services in foreign currency; the preference is given to the US Dollar and Euro.  

Use of credit cards and travel checks is possible only in the capital of the country and in tourist centres.

Connection

Country’s international code – 998. International and long distance code – 8.  

City transportation

All major cities have centralized passenger transportation connections.  In Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Andijane, Navoi, and other cities there are busses and fixed rout taxies.  In all other cases the passenger transportation in the cities is performed only by means of fixed rout taxies.  

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