Institualizatsiya kommemoratsionnoi politiki v Uzbekistane v period prezidentstva I.A. Karimova (1991-2016 gody)

The paper considers the institutional processes of the commemoration policy of Uzbekistan from 1991 to 2016. Key attention is paid to the contribution of the first president of the republic, I.A. Karimov, to the development of issues of historical politics through the prism of creating the memory institutions. The activities of memory institutions are analyzed, the main tasks and goals of the corresponding organizations are identified. The author proposes a periodization of the main stages in the institutional building of Uzbekistan from 1991 to 2016. Considerable attention is paid to spiritual and moral institutions as a unique feature of the Uzbek model of memory.