EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES N 21 OF THE SITTING OF SMALL PRESIDIUM OF THE TRANS-CAUCASUS CEC of 15 September 1927

Heard: on reorganization of the supreme governing organs of Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia. File N 0012

Decided: To ask the Central Executive Committee of the USSR to retain the existing governing organs in Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia until the next Elections of Soviets due to the complexity of reorganization of the supreme governing organs of the aforementioned Oblasts.

The issue shall be submitted to the governing organ.

Secretary of the Trans-Caucasus CEC

Authentic with original 

(Central State Historical Archive of the Nearest Future of Georgia, f. 607, desc. 1, file 754, p. 64)