EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES N29 OF THE SITTING OF CENTRAL EXECUTIVE

EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES N29 OF THE SITTING OF CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE USSR

of 27 November 1925

Heard: draft-project on reorganizations of the executive organs in the autonomous oblasts according to the Constitutions of the Republics.

Decided: To approve and distribute the draft-project to the Central Executive Committees of the Union Republics (see attached).

Secretary of the CEC of the USSR A. Enukidze

To the Central Executive Committees: RSFSR, Trans-Caucasus SFSR.

The documents at the disposal of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR show that the supreme executive organs in the autonomous oblasts are arranged in a different way: in some autonomous oblasts there are central executive committees, while in others they have Oblast Executive Committees. The Central Executive Committees are established in the autonomous oblasts of Chechnya, Kalmukhia, Kabardino-Balkaria, South Ossetia (RSFSR), Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia (Trans-Caucasus SFSR).

Such different structure of the executive organs lays the ground to the differences of their competence. The Central Executive Committees of the autonomous oblasts practically enjoy the rights that are rendered to the central executive committees of the Autonomous Republics, i.e. the autonomous oblasts become equal to the autonomous republics.

There is no legal ground for establishing the Central Executive Committees in the autonomous oblasts either in the Constitutions of the autonomous oblast, or in the Founding Acts of the mentioned autonomous oblasts and such approach breeds unequal conditions of the autonomous oblasts within the USSR.

Therefore the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR deems necessary to offer the autonomous oblasts to reorganize their central organs in a full compliance with the constitutions of union republics.

Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR M. Kalinin

Secretary of the Central Executive Committee A. Enukidze

(Central State Historical Archive of the Nearest Future of Georgia, f. 607, desc. 1, file 754, p. 8-9)