 Some of his articles were collected in the books "Youth", "Pure Dawn", and "525 Days that Shook Samarkand".In 1990, at the age of 35, Mamatov received the title "Honored Journalist of Uzbekistan".In the same year he was elected from the Jomboy electoral district to the Uzbek Supreme Soviet (parliament), serving as a high-ranking official on its Glasnost Committee until 1993.