Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, 1920
The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, established after the flight of the last Emir, Alim Khan, apparently initially adopted a red flag with the initials of the state in Russian and a crescent; the same year a flag, divided green over red with, in gold, the crescent and star appeared; both the green colour and the crescent and star are associated with Islam. In the hoist the initials of the state, in gold, were now in the Uzbek “Yanga imlâ” Arabic script: BKhShJ (Buxoro Xalq Shoʻro Jumhuriyati).