Documented by Uzbekistani official texts of the early independence period, historical studies of the Soviet time (by Sukhareva, Azadaev, Rempel’), and by allusions to a limited set of classical Central Asian Arabic- and Persian-language authors (Farabi, Bayhaqi, Wa‘iz-i Kashifi), but totally deprived of references to the international bibliography on neighbourhood and networks sociology in present-day Central Asia (even recent Uzbekistani research has been let aside of this essay), this short study offers a superficial overview of the denominations and functions of neighbourhood units in sedentary Transoxiana, from the Bronze Age to our days. The most substantial part of the article consists of a shortlist of legislations adopted since the beginning of the Soviet period on the organisation of neighbourhood units in the Uzbek SSR.