According to Ukrainian and Russian archives , the first Ukrainians arrived in Central Asia in the mid-18th century . The first mass settlement of Ukrainians in Turkestan began in 1885 and by 1897 , the first permanent settlements appeared in the Samarkand Region , with Ukrainian language schools and other Ukrainian traditions being observed . During the Great Patriotic War , thousands of Ukrainians in the Ukrainian SSR were evacuated to Soviet Uzbekistan . In the aftermath of the 1966 Tashkent earthquake , over 2,500 Ukrainian engineers participated in the restoration of Tashkent . In January 2014 , leaders in the Ukrainian diaspora spoke out to condemn an unauthorized rally in support of Euromaidan near the monument to Shevchenko , in which participants waved flags of Ukraine , Georgia and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
1966 Tashkent earthquake
1966 Tashkent earthquake
Ukraine–Uzbekistan relations