MINUTES N 3 OF THE SESSION OF THE TRANS-CAUCASUS CEC of 6 February 1928

Chaired by comrade M. Tskhakaia

Attended: Chairman of the CEC of the Trans-Caucasus comrade S. Kasiani; members of the Presidium – comrades A. Shaverdov, M. D. Bagirov, A. Gegechkori, V. Sturua, A Nazaretyan, M. D. Husseinov, and D. Buniat-Zade.

Candidates to the membership of the Presidium: comrades – A. Javakhishvili, E. Torikashvili, A. Ter-Vartanov, V. Mzareulashvili, S. Evoyan.

Secretary of the CEC of the Trans-Caucasus: comrade I. Tagiev

The Secretary of the Trans-Caucasus CEC of the CP (B): comrade M. Orakhelashvili

Secretary of the CEC of the Trans-Caucasus of the CP(B): comrade M. Orakhelashvili

From the organizational committee of the CEC of the CP(B): S. Shaverdov.

Head of Organizational Department of the Trans-Caucasus CEC: comrade Ph. Melnikov

Heard: 2. on reorganization of supreme governing organs of the autonomous oblasts of Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia (Protocol N 21 of the Trans-Caucasus CEC Presidium; 1927)

Decided: to propose to the central executive committees of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan and the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia to prepare the issue on reorganizations of supreme governing organs of the autonomous oblasts of Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia submit it to the next Congress of Soviets.

(Central State Historical Archive of the Nearest Future of Georgia, f. 607, desc. 1, file 1900, p. 7)