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When the Russian Empire began annexing Central Asian [[Turkestan]], Āmul was surrendered to Russians by the Bukhara [[emirate]], which subsequently became a [[vassal]] of Russia and pledged allegiance to the Russian emperor. The modern city was founded in 1886, when Russian [[Cossacks]] settled in Uralka in what is now the eastern part of Türkmenabat, naming their settlement ''New-Chardjuy''.{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} Settlement here was necessary to complete construction of the [[Trans-Caspian railway]].
After the [[Russian Revolution|revolution of 1917]], during which the [[Bolsheviks]] came into power in Russia, communists merged the former Central Asian oblasts of the Russian Empire along with the former Khanates of Khiva (Khorezm) and Bukhara into republics on the basis of nationality.
[[File:1. Чарджуй (бухарские владения). У городских ворот.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Photo taken at the entrance to the old {{lang|tk|Çärjew}} (Turkmenabat), by the French photographer Paul Nadar in 1890]]
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