Oʻzbekiston Milliy bogʻidagi suv ombori

The water reservoir in the Uzbekistan National Park (formerly Komsomol Lake) is the second large artificial water reservoir built on the Anhor Canal at the border of Tashkent city and the first mass recreational water reservoir created according to the city's main plan. Currently the lake's water zone includes the National Park named after A. Navoi. The small lake extends from the southwest to the northeast. It has two large islands connected by a shoreline and bridges. The area of the site is approximately 9 hectares and its depth is 1.5‑6 meters. After Uzbekistan gained independence, the name “Komsomolskoye” ceased to be used officially, but it remains in everyday life.

Until the end of the 1920s, there were no large public water reservoirs in Tashkent for the population's summer recreation, including swimming and boating. In the early 1930s, the first water reservoir for such purposes appeared in the city. This reservoir, which emerged above the dam of the Boʻzsu HPP under construction, was in turn the first HPP in the Chirchiq‑Boʻzsu HPP cascade. The first boat station in Tashkent was built on this reservoir named Gidra. However, after the water intake station of the Tashkent water pipe appeared at this reservoir, its waters were closed for the public recreation of the city’s residents. As a result, a need for a new recreational water reservoir arose. In the second half of the 1940s, two artificial lakes were created in Tashkent for swimming and summer recreation – Victory Park along the Boʻzsuv Canal and the Komsomol Lake formed by the water of the Anhor Canal (excavated). At the end of the 1930s, prisoners, Komsomol members, as well as other city residents (for example, unemployed housewives) actively participated in the creation of the water reservoir in their free time without pay.

Hydrography

According to some sources, the former quarry served as the site for creating the Komsomol Lake, from which building materials (mainly clay) were taken for brick production in brick factories in earlier periods of Tashkent’s history (the 18th‑early 19th centuries).

At the end of the swimming season, water is traditionally drained from the lake to clean the bottom, which is covered with clay, of various residues left by bathers. In summer, water weeds grow in the lake, and also the largest reach the development of two-paddle colonies of clear water up to thirty centimeters. Some of the two-paddle colonies disappear, but some winter in the ponds that remain in the deepest places of the lake bottom.