Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
1920–1925: Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic Киргизская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика (Russian) Қырғыз Автономиялы Социалистік Кеңестік Республикасы (Kazakh) 1925–1936: Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic Казахская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика (Russian) Қазақ Автономиялы Социалистік Кеңестік Республикасы (Kazakh) | |||||||||
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ASSR of the Russian SFSR | |||||||||
1920–1936 | |||||||||
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• Type | Unitary Soviet Republic | ||||||||
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• Established | 1920 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1936 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Kazakhstan Russia Turkmenistan Uzbekistan |
The Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic[1] (Russian: Казахская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика; Kazakh: Qazaq Aptonom Sotsijalistik Sovettik Respublikasь), abbreviated as Kazak ASSR (Russian: Казакская АССР; Kazakh: Qazaq ASSR) and simply Kazakhstan (Russian: Казахстан; Kazakh: Qazaƣьstan), was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) within the Soviet Union (from 1922) which existed from 1920 until 1936.[2]
History
The Kazakh ASSR was originally created as the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (
Before the
Geography
The Kazak ASSR that succeeded the recently expanded Kirghiz ASSR included all of the territory making up the present-day Republic of Kazakhstan plus parts of Uzbekistan (the
The administrative subdivisions of the ASSR changed several times in its history. In 1928 the . These included:
- Aktyubinsk Oblast (capital: Aktyubinsk);
- Alma-Ata (capital: Alma-Ata);
- East Kazak Oblast (capital: Semipalatinsk);
- Karaganda Oblast (capital: Petropavlovsk);
- South Kazak Oblast (capital: Chimkent);
- West Kazak Oblast (capital: Uralsk).
On 31 January 1935, yet another territorial division was implemented which included the six oblasts listed above plus a new
Notes
- ^ Sources differ on the year.
References
- ^ ISBN 9781317504351
- ^ SOVIET PERIOD IN KAZAKHSTAN
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 827–829.
- ^ The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1991. p. 607.
- ISBN 9781135776817
- ^ Niccolò Pianciola; Paolo Sartori (2013). "Interpreting an insurgency in Soviet Kazakhstan: The OGPU, Islam and Qazaq 'Clans' in Suzak, 1930". Islam, Society and States Across the Qazaq Steppe: 297–340.