Bukhara‐ye Sharif was the first Tajik newspaper in

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started on 11 March 1912 in

Bukhara Bukhara (Uzbek language, Uzbek: /, ; tg, Бухоро, ) is the List of cities in Uzbekistan, seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan, with a population of 280,187 , and the capital of Bukhara Region. People have inhabited the region around Bukhara ...

. The

Emirate of Bukhara The Emirate of Bukhara ( fa, , Amārat-e Bokhārā, chg, , Bukhārā Amirligi) was a Muslim polity in Central Asia that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It occupied the lan ...

with its capital Bukhara and its main city

Samarkand fa, سمرقند , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from the top:Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zinda, ...

had been a Russian protectorate since 1873. In 1920, after a successful attack of the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

, it was replaced with the

Bukharan People's Soviet Republic The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic ( uz, Бухоро Халқ Совет Республикаси, Buxoro Xalq Sovet Respublikasi; tg, Ҷумҳурии Халқии Шӯравии Бухоро; rus, Бухарская Народная Со ...

. The editor of the newspaper was Azerbaijani writer and journalist

Mirza Jalal Yusifzade , native_name_lang = , pseudonym = , birth_name = , birth_date = 1862 , birth_place = Shusha, Shusha uezd, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire , death_date = 1931 , death_place = Shusha, AzSSR, SFSR, USSR ...

. After the dissolution of the

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and the subsequent creation of the independent

Republic of Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centra ...

in 1991, the founding date of the Bukhara‐ye sharif newspaper was officially declared as the Day of the Press in Tajikistan.

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Баҳси "форсӣ" ва "тоҷикӣ" дар "Бухорои шариф" (Tajik)Bukharai-ye-sharif (English)

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{{Reflist Emirate of Bukhara Newspapers published in Tajikistan Mass media in Bukhara Journalism in Tajikistan

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