Yangiabad (Uzb. Yangiobod, Yangiobod) is a city (since 1953) in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan. Managed by the Angren City Council of Deputies.
As of 2004, the population was estimated at 9,000 inhabitants.

Location
Yangiabad is located on the southeastern slope of the Chatkal Range at the confluence of the Dukentsay and Kattasay rivers. The territory of the city is irrigated by the waters of Kattasay. The height of the center of the settlement is about 1300 m.
Yangiabad is located north of the city of Angren, which is governed by the city council. The distance to the nearest railway station Angren is 22 km. Between the two cities there is a connection by public transport (buses and fixed-route taxis).

History of the city
The city was originally built in the late 40s of the XX century as a town of miners who extract uranium ore in uranium mines built in its vicinity. The last uranium mines were closed in the 80s of the XX century due to the depletion of existing deposits. In Soviet times, when the uranium mines were still working, the city was a regime and was on Moscow’s supply. Now Yangiabad is a deserted city, the population of which is about 10-15% of the Soviet period. In the last elections of 2009, there were just over 400 voters on the lists of the election commission, mostly of retirement age.
The bulk of the inhabitants of the city in Soviet times were residents of the European part of the USSR, mostly Russians, as well as Ukrainians and representatives of other nationalities, both civilians and prisoners, whose labor was used in uranium mines. In the years when Yangiabad was a regime city, there were a small number of representatives of the indigenous nationalities of the region – Uzbeks, Kazakhs and Tajiks. At present, the bulk of the city’s population are Uzbeks and Tajiks who settled in the city after the collapse of the USSR. Often housing is acquired by them for the purpose of recreation.

Yangiabad itself was built mainly by German settlers from the Volga and other regions of the USSR, and not by prisoners of war, as is often believed (prisoners of war returning to Germany, even to Eastern, would not be allowed into uranium mines). Perhaps, due to the influence of German culture, the city has a peculiar architecture, reminiscent of the architecture of a German town of the 19th-20th centuries, unexpected for the gaze of a person who first came to this Central Asian town. There are no buildings higher than 3 floors in the city. This is probably also due to the high seismic activity in this region. The houses were designed for 9-magnitude earthquakes.
According to the 1989 census, 11,709 people lived in Yangiabad.

Sights of the city
Near the city, at a distance of several kilometers from it up the valley of the Kattasay River, there is the Yangiabad camp site, which was organized in the early 70s of the 20th century on the basis of a closed uranium mine. Near the camp site there are several sites for skiing in winter.

Up the valley of another river – Dukentsaya, about 10 km from the city, at an absolute height of 2000 m, there is a scientific laboratory of the Tashkent Central Asian Regional Research Hydrometeorological Institute – an avalanche station. The station was organized in 1958 to protect uranium mines operating in the vicinity of the city from snow avalanches and is the first snow avalanche station on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan.