Bukhara is the largest state in the former Uzbek SSR territory. It takes over half of Uzbekistan's former territory. Of the former Uzbek SSR oblasts of 1983, there are only a few that do not belong to Bukhara. These are the Karakalpak ASSR, the shahar of Toshkent and the viloyatlar of Sirdaryo, Toshkent, Namangan, Farg'ona, Andijon and Xorazm.
The Uzbek SSR was hit more lightly than other SSR's such as the Kazakh or the Turkmeni. Uzbekistan received nuclear strikes over the cities of Termez, Tashkent (four separate nuclear strikes), Andijon, Qarshi, Navoiy and Uchquduq. The radiation was a problem too, but most of it quickly escaped onto the lowlands into west Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. With almost all of the Soviet Armed Forces troops in Central Asia were personnel of the Turkestan Military District (TurkVO), which was based in Tashkent.
September 26th, 1983. Taskhent, Uzbek SSR.
Umay Karimova, the Uzbek SSR, had been woke up by the noises outside her building, when a phone call made her to run to the living room, where the device was located.
"Arisha... It's almost 5:40...what's happening?"
"Umay!...Please, listen me and follow what I'm telling you. Leave Taskhent now, the war has started!"
Both Umay and Arisha got their information thanks to the Vertushka system, which allowed telephone communication between all the republics...and saved a lot of lifes...
The first news of an incoming american attack (Doomsday) reached the territory of the Uzbek SSR at 5:30 AM. The first nuclear weapons hit approximately at 6:10, one half hour later. This relatively large amount of time between the news and the strike made it possible for much of the government and population of Tashkent to escape. Most escaped north towards Siberia, while others fleed to the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand.
As soon as contact with Tashkent (and Moscow) was broken, much of Uzbekistan fell into chaos. The city-states of Bukhara and Samarkand quickly declared a goverment with the remnants of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Communist Party of Uzbekistan. However, Samarkand was soon plagued with civil and political unrest, while Bukhara became the safest city in the former SSR.
May 3th, 1984. Bukhara, Bukharan Socialist Soviet Republic.
After leaving Taskhent before the city was nuked, some days passed for Umay until she reached the city of Bukhara. There, a provisional goverment was being created, located in the Ark of Bukhara, a massive fortress near the city center...
The period composing the years between 1984 and 1990 was extremely hard for the Bukharan Socialist Soviet Republic. Although the area of the SSR escaped much of the radiation from the many bombings on Central Asia due to the wind, rain and the geography of Uzbekistan moved towards Karalparakistan, but the attacks on Nawoiy and Qarshi still proved devastating. The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) of the bombs destroyed every non-shielded device. Small fallout pockets blocked economic routes, most importantly that between Bukhara and Samarkand blocked due to the bombing of Nawoiy. By 1990, the population of Uzbekistan had been cut by half (from 16 million inhabitants to eight million). However, due to gigantic amounts of influx from the even more irradiated and dangerous neighboring countries, the population stayed at 15 million inhabitants (only one million people less than before Doomsday). Fortunately, by then the worst was over.
As the Soviet Union was more well known, when the Kazakh SSR recuperated and stopped being the ransacked region it was until then, the nationalist goverment of the Uzbek Republic against the Soviet-friendly Khanate of Kokand and the Soviet Union proper. In 2009-early 2010, the Khanate of Bukhara started going through internal turmoil. The Soviet Union made the nearby Khanate of Aralia into a puppet, and the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan started getting more involved into the Bukharan affairs.
Since there, the relations between those states are tense, and both Umay and Snezhana haven't established new meetings between each other... While Umay still believes that Snezhana took her Aral Sea coast...
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