 This led to the foundation of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in March 1919.The party was established when two groups, simultaneously but independently of each other, decided to organize themselves into independent political formations in the Third International.The original groups based in Tashkent and Temjassovo, Bashkiria, were supplemented by activists from Bukhara and Kirghizia following a chance meeting in Moscow in November 1919.