EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES N 5 OF THE SITTING OF THE PRESIDIUM OF CEC OF THE TRANS-CAUCASUS

            of  30 March 1926

Heard: on the supreme organs of power in the autonomous oblasts of Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia. (Minutes N 38-26 of the Pres. of the USSR) (Repporteur: comrade Shaverdov)

Decided: Being guided by the Circular Note of the CEC of the USSR of 27 November 1925 and the Resolution of the CEC of the USSR of 19 February 1926, the Presidium offers to start reorganizing the supreme organs of Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia; first of all they have to elaborate and submit for approval to the Presidium of CEC of the Trans-Caucasus the draft regulations on the supreme executive organs in these autonomous oblasts.

Secretary of the CEC of the Trans-Caucasus A. Shaverdov

Authentic with original: Technical secretary of the CEC of the Trans-Caucasus SFSR Khoroshilov (Signed) 

(Central State Historical Archive of the Nearest Future of Georgia, f. 607, desc. 1, file 754, p. 2; ibidem, f. 284,  desc. 1, file 961, p. 3)