A very large industry in Bukhara is the export of Astrakhan lamb skins (called locally Karakul).
Enormous flocks of these sheep are kept in the deserts around Bukhara.
The exact position of the native states of Bukhara and Khiva, which were later occupied by the Soviet Government, remained obscure.
The total area under cotton in 1916, including that grown in Khiva and Bukhara, was 1,838,215 acres, yielding about 18,000,000 poods or 290,000 tons of raw cotton.
The total length of these railways in Bukhara was about 400 m.