The origins of the Moscow school of modern stellar astronomy

The Moscow School of Modern Stellar Astronomy, which received international recognition already in the 1950s, arose and developed, among other things, thanks to the efforts of astronomers who were given a professional start by the Tashkent Observatory. Among those who left their mark in the history of astronomy, the P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, the names of the first civilian astrophysicist of the Tashkent Observatory, V.V. Stratonov, and two scientists who began their professional career in Tashkent and then successfully worked in Moscow. We review the bright Tashkent trace in the formation of the Moscow school of stellar astronomy