Uzbek Socialist Soviet Republic, 1924
On 27 October 1924 the Uzbek SSR was proclaimed, one of the 5 Soviet Socialist Republics created along ethnic lines as determined by Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin’s Commissar for Nationalities, out of the Turkestan, Bukharan and Khorezm Soviet Republics. Its capital was in Samarkand until 1930. The flag was red with in the canton the abbreviation of the republic’s name, Uz.S.S.R., in both Yanga imlâ Arabic lettering (in which Uzbek was written) and Russian Cyrillic, surrounded by a thin border, all in yellow.