Avaz's background, in his own words
Avaz Bokiev began his career in the Uzbek travel industry in 2007 with a Samarkand-based tour operator, cutting his teeth on Silk Road group circuits during the early years of Uzbekistan's post-liberalisation tourism boom. Over the eighteen years since, he has designed and personally led itineraries for travellers from more than forty countries across the four great oasis cities, the Fergana Valley craft towns, the Kyzylkum desert and the Aral Sea region.
His routing specialty is the multi-city Silk Road trip — the Tashkent-Khiva-Bukhara-Samarkand classic and its longer 14-day Grand Tour variant — and the deep-cut craft and Timurid heritage circuits that most operators skip. He plans every trip the company publishes and personally briefs each lead guide before departure.
As editor of the Uzbekistan Guided Tours knowledge hub, Avaz reviews and edits every published article: the 50+ long-form guides, the 105 atomic KB entries, the destination pages and the per-country visa references. Every article on the site passes through his desk before publication, and he is the person a reader is corresponding with when they ask a follow-up question via the site's contact form.
Born in Samarkand, Avaz speaks English, Uzbek and Russian professionally, plus conversational Persian used across the Bukhara–Samarkand craft trade. He lives in Samarkand with his family and still guides personally when a trip's routing or timing benefits from it.
What "Edited by Avaz Bokiev" means
Reviews and edits every article published on this site before it goes live. Every long-form guide, every knowledge-base entry, every destination page and every visa reference passes through the editor's desk. The byline on any article that reads "Edited by Avaz Bokiev" means Avaz personally approved that article's structure, sourcing and language.
Every article on this site carries two named humans
Avaz works alongside Shukhrat Atakulov — co-founder, reviewer & head of on-ground operations. Every article is edited by Avaz Bokiev and reviewed by Shukhrat Atakulov.