Голодная степь

Also known as Jizzakh-Chinaz Steppe, Mirzachoʻl Steppe

thumb|Nomadic Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz family on the Mirzachoʻl Steppe in Uzbekistan, 1911. (photograph by S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii) Mirzachoʻl (; ) is a loess plain of some 10,000 km2 on the left bank of Syr Darya in Uzbekistan, extending from the mouth of Ferghana Valley on the border with Tajikistan to the east across Sirdaryo Region and the northern part of Jizzakh Region to the west. To the south it is bounded by Turkestan Range.