Around 13,000 Workers, Including Russians, Involved in Uzbekistan Nuclear Power Plant Project

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Approximately 13,000 workers, including about 3,000 Russian specialists, will participate in the construction of Uzbekistan’s nuclear power plant, a project implemented by Rosatom.

This was reported by Pavel Bezrukov, Vice President of JSC Atomstroyexport, at the roundtable “Uzbekistan–Russia: 20 Years of Allied Relations and New Horizons of Cooperation,” dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Treaty on Allied Relations between the two countries, TASS reported.

“At the peak of construction, around 13,000 workers will be deployed on site. Of these, about 3,000 are Russian personnel, while the remainder are employees and workers from Uzbekistan,” he said.

On May 27, 2024, a contract was signed in Jizzakh Region to build the country’s first small-capacity nuclear power plant, consisting of six reactors of 55 MW each. The general contractor is JSC Atomstroyexport, Rosatom’s engineering division, with local companies also involved in construction.

In June 2025, the Presidents of Uzbekistan and Russia agreed to reformat the project by adding a two-unit large-capacity nuclear power plant and a two-unit small-capacity nuclear plant. On October 9, excavation work began at the site of the future small NPP’s reactor block.

The roundtable was organized by the International Institute of Central Asia (IICA) and the Russian Embassy.

It was noted that the Treaty on Allied Relations, signed on November 14, 2005, in Moscow by Vladimir Putin and Uzbekistan’s first president Islam Karimov, remains a key document in bilateral relations, enshrining principles of partnership in military-political, trade-economic, transport-communications, and humanitarian spheres.