Astrakhan - Atyrau was awful in 2014, huge craters in the asphalt from the border most of the way to Atyrau.
Atyrau - Beyneu is excellent asphalt (2014).
Beyneu to the border is quite rough and unpaved.
Border to Nukus is OK asphalt, not a problem to drive on (2011).
Nukus to Samarkand was recently repaired, but I have not driven the main route (through Bukhara) since 2007, when it was OK. There is an alternative road through Uchquduq and Zerafshan to Navoiy, nice desert drive but the road is OK asphalt (2011).
Samarkand - Dushanbe is fine.
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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
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