The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic existed for barely three years before being absorbed into the Soviet Union, making its entire currency output a footnote in the broader story of Soviet consolidation in Central Asia. This 1000 tengov note was issued following the Red Army's storming of Bukhara in September 1920 — an event Lenin personally authorized — which ended the emirate and installed a nominally independent people's republic that was Soviet in everything but name.
The tengo itself was a continuation of local monetary tradition rather than a Soviet imposition; the new government kept the familiar unit precisely because the population mistrusted anything too foreign. The republic's paper issues circulated alongside Russian sovznaki and a chaotic mix of earlier emirate coinage.
The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic existed for barely three years before being absorbed into the Soviet Union, making its entire currency output a footnote in the broader story of Soviet consolidation in Central Asia. This 1000 tengov note was issued following the Red Army's storming of Bukhara in September 1920 — an event Lenin personally authorized — which ended the emirate and installed a nominally independent people's republic that was Soviet in everything but name.
The tengo itself was a continuation of local monetary tradition rather than a Soviet imposition; the new government kept the familiar unit precisely because the population mistrusted anything too foreign. The republic's paper issues circulated alongside Russian sovznaki and a chaotic mix of earlier emirate coinage.