Nurafshon

the town in Tajikistan
Until 2017, the town was known as Toytepa. The towns Yangihayot and Chigirik are part of the city.

Two Zoroastrian period ossuaries, dating to the 6th century, are kept in the Samarkand museum. It received the status of a city in 1973. Until 2017, it was called Toytepa (Uzbek. Toʻytepa/Tўytepa) and was a city of rayon subordination of Oʻrtachirchiq District. On August 25, 2017, the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan at its plenary session decided to rename the city of Toytepa to Nurafshon.

The city of Nurafshon is located 4 km from the train station Toytepa, on the highway Tashkent Kokand, 25 km south of Tashkent.

The population of Nurafshon as of July 1, 2018 is 49,731. It is estimated that the town's population was previously over 29,000 and in 1975 it was 17,000.

Important cotton processing enterprises exist in Nurafshon, mostly due to Uzbek South Korean joint ventures. Fluorspar, the most important source of fluorine, is mined at Nurafshon. The city has an aluminum ore processing plant, a garment factory, trucking companies, and manufacturing industries.

In the city there is general secondary school No.1 (formerly named after A. S. Pushkin), which is one of the oldest schools in the city. The school has Russian and Uzbek language classes, and special attention is paid to the study of foreign languages English, German, French and Korean. There is also a general secondary school No.48 (formerly named after A. P. Gaidar, located on Toshkent Yoli Street), which also has Russian and Uzbek classes. There is a 28th general education Kazakh language school named after Abai Qunanbaiuly.