Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Modern Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Sotsialist Sovet Cumhuriyeti; Official Crimean Tatar name (Uniform Turkic Alphabet): Qrьm Avonomjalь Sotsialist Sovet Respublikasь; Russian: Крымская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика - Krymskaya Avtonomnaya Socialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika) was created on October 18, 1921 as Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of RSFSR in place of Taurida Governorate and within the Crimean Peninsula, with its capital being Simferopol. The official languages were Crimean Tatar and Russian. On December 5, 1936 by the VIII Extraordinary Congress of Soviets of USSR the republic was renamed into the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.[1]
A significant part of its population were Crimean Tatars, who were stripped of their property and civil rights and forcibly resettled to Central Asia in 1944.[2] (Their constitutional rights were restored in 1967.) However, they were not allowed to return until the last days of the Soviet Union.
On June 30, 1945 by the decree of the both Presidiums of the Supreme Soviet of USSR and the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR (published on May 26, 1946) it was converted into the Crimean Oblast of RSFSR, which was transferred to Ukrainian SSR in 1954.[3]
Following a referendum held on January 20, 1991 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was reestablished on February 12, 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.[4] Today it is officially named the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Chairmen of Revkom
- November 16, 1920 - February 20, 1921 Bela Kun
- February 20, 1921 - November 7, 1921 Mikhail Poliakov (become the one of NKVD troika)
Leaders of Republican Council
- Central Executive Committee
- November 7, 1921 - August 1924 Yuriy Gaven (Janis Daumanis)
- August 1924 - January 28, 1928 Veli Ibraimov
- January 28, 1928 - February 20, 1931 Memet Kubayev
- February 20, 1931 - September 9, 1937 Ilyas Tarkhan (arrested on September 8, 1937)
- September 9, 1937 - July 21, 1938 Abdul-Celil Menbariyev
- Supreme Soviet
- July 21, 1938 - May 18, 1944 Abdul-Celil Menbariyev (deported to Middle Asia)
- May 18, 1944 - June 30, 1945 N.Sachiova (acting)
- after fall of Soviet Union
- March 22, 1991 - May 9, 1994 Nikolay Bagrov
Heads of Government
- Soviet of People's Commissars was created by the I session of Central Executive Committee
- November 11, 1921 - May 16, 1924 Sakhib-Garey Said-Galiyev
- May 16, 1924 - May 1924 I.Goncharov (acting)
- May 1924 - March 21, 1926 Osman Deren-Ayerly
- March 21, 1926 - May 1929 Emir Shugu
- May 1929 - September 16, 1937 Abduraim Samedinov (arrested September 17, 1937)
- 1937 - April 5, 1942 Memet Ibraimov
- April 5, 1942 - May 18, 1944 Ismail Seyfullayev
- May 18, 1944 - June 30, 1945 Aleksandr Kabanov
- Soviet of Ministers
- March 22, 1991 - May 20, 1993 Vitaliy Kurashik
Main Chekists
- Cheka
- until April 1921 Mikhail Vikhman (later in Chernihiv)
- April 1921 - June 1921 Smirnov
- June 20, 1921 - 1921 Fyodor Fomin (transferred to Kiev)
- November 11, 1921 - February 1922 Aleksandr Rotenberg
- Crimea GPU
- February 1922 - September 11, 1922 Aleksandr Rotenberg
- September 11, 1922 - April 25, 1923 Stanislav Redens
- Merged GPU
- April 25, 1923 - June 9, 1924 Stanislav Redens
- May 20, 1924 - July 29, 1925 Sergei Szwarz (transferred to the Special department of the Black Sea Navy)
- 1925 Aleksandr Toropkin (transferred to Ural)
- October 1926 - April 26, 1928 Ivan Apeter (transferred to the Special department of the Black Sea Navy)
- OGPU
- April 26, 1928 - December 1929 Grigoriy Rapoport (transferred to Belarus Military District)
- January 23, 1930 - July 10, 1934 Eduard Salins (Eduards Saliņš)
- Directorate of NKVD
- July 15, 1934 - December 17, 1934 Eduard Salins (transferred to Omsk)
- January 2, 1935 - February 16, 1937 Tite Lordkipanidze
- NKVD
- February 16, 1937 - June 29, 1937 Tite Lordkipanidze (perished in 1937)
- June 29, 1937 - October 20, 1937 Karp Pavlov
- October 20, 1937 - August 4, 1938 Artur Mikhelson (transferred to Moscow-Omsk river transportation)
- August 4, 1938 - December 18, 1938 Lavrentiy Yakushev (also Babkin)
- December 19, 1938 - February 26, 1941 Grigoriy Karanadze
- February 26, 1941 - July 31, 1941 Pyotr Fokin (transferred to the IV department and then the Operational-chekist group)
- July 31, 1941 - December 17, 1942 Grigoriy Karanadze
- October 5, 1943 - July 5, 1945 Vasiliy Sergiyenko
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