On May 30, 1923, the two autonomous regions of the Buryat-Mongol of Siberia and the Far East, was combined to form the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR.

The Buryat government then held a competition, which saw twenty emblem proposals submitted for consideration, including designs by Yakov Rubanchik.

[2] However, the Buryat writing system frequently changed, and there was no consensus as to the proper name of country and the translation of the motto "Workers of the world, unite!"

[1] The inscription in the emblem undergone significant change in 1939, when the Buryat language switched to Cyrilic letters.

[1] Several years prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in October 1990 the Buryat ASSR adopted a new emblem, designed by A. F. Horеnov.