Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater named after. Alisher Navoi

According to his project, the appearance of the building should be national, but of a European quality standard. Shchusev turned to folk craftsmen and it was decided that the design of the building would include a lot of wall painting, carvings, and ganch carvings. Later, the interior space of the theater was divided into 6 foyers and decorated in styles traditional for various regions - Bukhara, Samarkand, Khorezm, Termez.

The large auditorium with 1,400 seats is a semi-oval with rows of velvet burgundy chairs with heavy hanging balconies; Russian stucco, unconventional for Central Asia, was used here; a lot of gilding was used in the design of the auditorium. The auditorium chandelier is made in the shape of a bunch of grapes.

On the left side outside the theater there is a memorial plaque on which it is written in three languages - Russian, English and Japanese - that the labor of Japanese prisoners of war was used in the construction of the building. A little further in the green zone we see a peace pillar on which is written in Japanese and Uzbek: “In the name of peace on earth.”

On the theater square there is a large marble fountain or house, its center is decorated with a half-opened cotton boll, which is a symbol of Uzbekistan as one of the world's cotton exporters. When the fountain is turned on, the streams of water have a whitish tint and symbolize streams of cotton. There is lighting along the perimeter and in the center of the fountain, thanks to which it looks especially beautiful in the evening.