Abdukarim Mirzayev

Abdukarim Mirzayev was born on 20 February 1982 in the Denov district of the Surkhandarya region. He studied art history at the Kamoliddin Behzod National Institute of Art and Design in Tashkent (1999–2004).

He has worked in the media since the early 2000s. On radio he hosted “Dilkash” (Poytakht), “Uchinchi odam” and “Dastxat” (Zamin FM); on the Yoshlar channel of the National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan he made the projects “Yettinchi qadam” and “Yo'ldagi odam” (the latter ran for 25 episodes).

As a director he has made several documentaries, among them “Dardga da'vo bormi?” (2010) about the events in southern Kyrgyzstan. Documentaries about the poet Muhammad Yusuf and the People's Artist Otanazar Matyoqubov are also listed among his works.

From 2017 he lived in Turkey, where he studied journalism for a master's degree at Kastamonu University and worked as chief director of the Istanbul TV channel Registon TV. During the pandemic lockdown he began publishing his stories on YouTube, moving his radio format to video. He now publishes stories, conversations and live streams through his official channels on Telegram and YouTube.