A woman has lived in Uzbekistan for more than 30 years with a USSR passport

A resident of Uzbekistan has lived with a passport of a citizen of the USSR for more than 30 years and only received a document of the republic the day before. This was announced on March 14 by the press service of the Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan.

"For a long time, the citizen lived with a USSR passport," the Ministry of Justice said in a comment on the Telegram channel.

It turned out that citizen Onarkhol Fedorovna Kubayeva, who was born on December 21, 1972 in the Nurotinsky district, got married in 1992 and moved to the Nakurt mahalla in the Payaryksky district. For a long time she lived with a passport of the former USSR due to neglect and insufficient family conditions.

The department noted that the woman had not previously contacted the internal affairs bodies, local government officials, or the registry office on this issue, so the document was not replaced in a timely manner.

After the situation was identified, the Kushrabatsky and Payaryksky district departments of Justice, together with the Migration and Citizenship Registration unit, took the necessary measures. As a result, on March 14, 2026, the woman was issued an ID card of a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The Ministry promised to continue working to ensure the rights of citizens, including the registration of identity documents.

The issuance of the first national passports instead of Soviet ones was carried out in the republic in 1995-2000. Since 2011, biometric passports have been issued in the country, and then they switched to internal ID cards.

In November 2025, Sergei Naryshkin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation and chairman of the Russian Historical Society, handed over Russian passports to the family of French civil servant Georges Pak, known as an informant of Soviet intelligence.

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