The primary goal of this simple deployment is to obtain recordings from two sites in the Republic of Uzbekistan of ground motion in the absence of earthquakes, and of waveforms from earthquakes occurring at all distances (local to teleseismic) and from a wide range of back azimuths. This information will allow the characterization of the ambient and anthropogenic seismic noise environments and the estimation of signal-to-noise ratios to assist in the choice and subsequent establishment of a permanent IRIS-IDA (II) station of the Global Seismograph Network (GSN) at one of the sites.