Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, 1920
When, after calls for reform and Russian invasion, on 31 August 1920 Emir Mohammed Alim Khan fled to Dushanbe and later Afghanistan, the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was established. It was reported to have flown a red flag with a crescent in the centre and the initials of the state, BNSR (Bukharskaya Narodnaya Sovyetskaya Respublika) in Russian Cyrillic at the hoist. Probably this was in white or gold.