Order "Red Star".

[Sergey Tamayev]

I realize that this is probably a long shot, but does any member own any of the classes of the Order of the Red Star of Bokhara NSR? Could you post a photo?

[Art]

Sergey,
I don't own one, these are from Kuchenko's "Orders of the Soviet Republics". I apologize for the color. The image quality in the book is not the best.

Next..note, one is an earlier type, but this and the above are both 1c's.

[Art]

2c..

[Art]

3c..

[Sergey Tamayev]

Art,

Thank you, I have only seen b/w photos previously. Now to find one or more.....:cool:

[Bryan]

Art,

Do you know how many of each class were awarded?

Bryan

[Art]

Bryan,

Kutsenko writes that in 1921, there were two orders created for the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic (BPSR) a gold-plated silver 1st class, and a pure silver 2nd class. Unfortunately he doesn't give exact numbers of each awarding. The book mentions that the Orders of Bukhara PSR were conferred about 10 times on military units-cavalry and infantry regiments of the Bukhara Red Army, thus the total number of those awarded with the Order of all 3 classes equals to a minimum of 600 people. His book contains entries for 315 separate people. The english translation is rather sketchy. If someone wants to translate the Russian to English, I can scan the pages of text ( about 6 pages ) and email it to them if they promise to post a full translation here.


Art

[Soviet]

From the Soviet Armed Forces Museum :)

[Lapa]

From the Central Museum of the Armed Forces.

Marc

[Lapa]

Also from the Central Museum of the Armed Forces.

Originally was pinback (same as 1st class), then was changed to screwback.

Marc