You are almost right! Young Uzbeks admired everything Russian when I was there so I asked them about “Moscow Nights” but they did not know that title.
Later I learned that the music authorities insisted it be called “Evenings in the Moscow Suburbs”.
BTW in Samarkand there is an enclosed block around the old Orthodox church where all the signs are still in kirilitsa.
True. Samarkand is quite a spot. It is very old and represents quite a rich ancient culture. People used to laugh about Uzbeks but they were quite an advanced civilization ahead of any Arab counterpart including Iraq at the time. It was basically a center of Islamic Golden Age in medieval.