[2] Doctor Ibrohim Moʻminov, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, was the chief editor of volumes one through nine.

[4] The Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia is a comprehensive source of knowledge in social and economic studies and in the applied sciences.

A major value of the encyclopedia is its comprehensive information about the USSR in general and the Uzbek SSR in particular.

Every aspect of life in Soviet Uzbekistan is systematically presented, including history, economy, science, art, and culture.

[4] The encyclopedia criticizes anti-Soviet writers such as Abdulrauf Fitrat and Choʻlpon as bourgeois nationalists, but these figures were rehabilitated during glasnost.