The square in the center of Tashkent which is nowadays carrying the name Amir Temur's square was put before the building of the headquarters of the Turkestan military district at the initiative of Mikhail Chernyaev and on the project of the architect Nikolai Ulyanov in 1882 on crossing of two central streets of the new city — Moscow and Kaufmanovsky Avenue under the name of Konstantinovsky Square. Originally he was a traveler. Pre-revolutionary history of the square
Originally on the place of the square there was so-called Konstantinovskaya Square surpassing other squares of the city in the sizes.

This area was not paved and therefore dusty in dry weather and dirty during a rain.
The basis for a rasplanirovka of the square the architect was the idea of crossing in its center of two big avenues — Kaufmansky and Moscow which divided the territory of the square into four parts and passed through it through. At the same time, around the square the road which all others joined ran. All four parts were covered with a grid of pedestrian shady avenues, very rational and considering the movement pedestrians crossing the square in various directions.
It is necessary to notice that these two streets at which intersection was and the square is put, repeated the ancient trade ways which developed in the neighborhood of the city a lot more hundreds years ago. Moskovsky Avenue was a piece of a caravan track to Kashgar and further to China — the Great Silk Way going from the ancient city of Chach (nowadays the ancient settlement Minguryuk located in only one and a half kilometers from the present square on continuation of the former Moskovsky Avenue towards the Salar River), and Kaufmanovsky Avenue was a road piece, conducting from a city citadel of old Tashkent through Kuylyuk and through fords of the river Chirchiq towards Kokand, and the piece of an old caravan track which too was. Thus, it is possible to assume that the vicinity of this intersection since ancient times represented a peculiar cult place.
Surrounded the square remarkable with the architectural features of the building of men's and female gymnasiums, the building of national bank, teacher's seminary. And buildings of men's and female gymnasiums and bank in almost invariable look (in the thirties the 20th century both buildings of gymnasiums were built on and became three-storyed) remained till our time.
In this square originally there was a tomb of the governor general of the Turkestan region — Constantin Kauffman, died in May, 1882 in Tashkent.
In 1901 there took place "The Turkestan exhibition in Tashkent" which was held including in Konstantinovsky Square. For an exhibition several pavilions in east style, one such pavilion "in Mauritian style", constructed on the project of the architect A.L. Benois, sustained even a strong earthquake of 1966 were built, it was converted to the pavilion selling flowers and remained in the center of the square until recently.
On November 17, 1910 in the center of crossing of Kaufmansky and Moscow avenues consecration of the place was made and laying of a monument of Konstantin to Kauffman, in the presence of all higher authorities, troops, pupils and many other residents is made.
Money for a monument was raised on a subscription, collected more than 80 thousand rubles. The academy of Arts announced a competition on the project of a monument to "the Gen. Kauffman and troops which subdued Central Asia".
On May 4, 1913 in the center of the square where the Moscow and Kaufmansky avenues crossed, the multifigured monument to the first Turkestan governor general Constantin Kauffman was established on I.G. Shleifer's project. The pedestal was decorated a figure of an eagle about two, looking in different directions, the heads on two necks and bronze boards, the inscription on main of which said: "To Konstantin Petrovichu von Kaufman and to troops which subdued Central Asia". The square received the name Kaufmansky Square.
The square in Soviet period
After the revolution of 1917 Konstantin's monument to Kauffman was dismantled in the summer of 1919, however a granite pedestal on which there was a monument, remained. On a pedestal set up a banner, and around installed the guns which are beaten off in fortress during the October events. This "composition" was called "a monument to fighters of revolution", and the square received in 1918 the name the square of Maria Spiridonova", soon replaced with the name the square of revolution.
In 1919 — 1926 on a granite pedestal the new monument in fashionable then style of constructivism — the "Sickle and a hammer" which was at the same time a tribune for a performance of speakers on meetings was established.
By a decade of revolution in 1927 the column with a dome and an inscription in two languages here appeared: "October — the beacon of world revolution. 1917 — 1927". In Uzbek the inscription was executed by the Arab font therefore in 1929 after the translation of Uzbek at first on Latin, and then on Cyrillics, a column with an inscription the Arab font it was necessary to remove.
In the spring of 1930 on the place of a column for very short time the propaganda complex with Vladimir Lenin's bust and an appeal "A five-years period in 4 years was established!"
Since the beginning of the 30th years of the 20th century the center of the square continued to occupy a granite pedestal of the former monument in an environment of serf tools.
In 1935 it was decided to remove a pedestal from the center of the square and again to turn the square into the passable intersection of two streets which began to be called Engels (Moskovsky Avenue) and Karl Marx (Kaufmansky Avenue) by then.
In the late forties, when in the USSR celebrated anniversary Iosif of Stalin, in the center of the square of Revolution on a granite pedestal the monument — now again was delivered to the head of the USSR — to Stalin, works of the famous sculptor Merkurov.
Considerable reconstruction of both the square, and buildings surrounding it was in the fifties carried out.
After the XXII congress of the CPSU which took place in October, 1961 when it was decided to dismantle all monuments to Stalin, the monument from a pedestal was removed, and the pedestal is decided to be used for a memorable stele with words from the new Program of the CPSU in two languages, in this regard the monument in the center of the square received the name "Russian-Uzbek Dictionary" in the people.
In 1968 it was again decided to establish in the downtown the monument connected with communistic, revolutionary subject. For this purpose the authorities chose Karl Marx whose name was born by the street passing through the square. On D. Ryabichev's project very original monument to the founder of communistic ideology — a granite torch with the developing bronze flame in the form of Karl Marx's head was established here. Then it seemed to much that at last the square took the finished settled form which will remain for a long time.
The square was the attractive vacation spot of citizens. Here in 1961 the well-known cafe (restaurant) "Friendship" constructed in fashionable then "concrete — glass" style and also several cafe frozen basic of which was open there were Snezhok cafes in which in days off and holidays ate frozen not one generation of small tashkentets, and their parents could drink on a glass of the fine dry wine produced by the Uzbek wine makers, to a glass of fresh fruit juice or a small bottle of the Tashkent mineral water here — one of the table mineral waters, best in the class.
The square drew with the central situation attention and the people wishing to express the political sympathies or requirements for these or those occasions. Here in the twentieth and thirtieth years communistic meetings were held more than once, and since the end of the 1960th years in the square, unauthorized the authorities, the Crimean Tatars demanding to lift the ban on their return to the Crimea after their deportation by Stalin in 1944 several times held the meetings.
The square drew with the central convenient arrangement and also existence of the cafe restaurant working till late evening attention and any "gold" youth and a criminal element gathering from 1960 to the 1980th years in the evening on benches of its avenues for search of potential clients.
Current state
After declaration of independence of Uzbekistan, in 1993 the sign monument to Karl Marx was dismantled as not answering to ideology of the new state.
On August 31, 1994, on the eve of the third anniversary of independence Uzbekistan Square was renamed into Amir Temur's square, and in his center the new monument of the sculptor of Ilkhom Dzhabbarov — a bronze horse monument to Tamerlan — to the great statesman and the commander of an era of the Middle Ages, one of founders of the Uzbek statehood, designed to consolidate ideologically society around great fulfillments of the ancestors was open. The president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov who was present at his opening made the speech in which he told: "Our people which throughout long years were in a colonial vice were deprived of an opportunity to esteem the great compatriot, to do justice to his historical merits".
For the purpose of fight against such defects as prostitution and idle pastime, in the square the city authorities are liquidated all drinkable and entertaining institutions now, being in it — Druzhba cafe and several ice-cream bars and also the pavilion selling flowers — "The Mauritian pavilion".
In November, 2009 old trees, many of which contained more than 100 years and which were a square symbol, were cut down according to the decision of the authorities, in connection with complex actions for reconstruction of the square and the territory around it and to updating of green plantings. For example, it is decided to broaden the road before Legal institute (the building of the former Female gymnasium), and on the place of Poytakht hotel to build the office building. In this regard it was also decided to demolish the building of the former church of the Tashkent teacher's seminary constructed in 1898 on the project of the architect Alexey Benois.