- South-East (administrative division)
The South-East ( _ru. Ю́го-Восто́к), also referred to as South-Eastern
Krai ( _ru. Ю́го-Восто́чный край) and South-EasternOblast ( _ru. Ю́го-Восто́чная о́бласть) was a territory, and later an administrative division, of theRussian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) which existed in 1920-1924.Originally, the name "South-East" was used informally to refer to the territories of Don, Kuban Black Sea, and
Tersk Oblast s, as well as those ofStavropol Governorate and Dagestan ASSR, which were governed by the Revolutionary Soviet of the Laborers' Army of South-East Russia (hence the name "South-East") established onAugust 7 ,1920 . While the Soviet itself was abolished in 1921, the name "South-East" stuck. Occasionally, the territory was also referred to as "South-Eastern Krai" and "South-Eastern Oblast", even though no official krai/oblast status was assigned to it at the time.The system of the administrative and territorial division of the RSFSR was developing haphazardly in the beginning of the 1920s: it was inconsistent, expensive to maintain, and not very effective in practice. As a reaction to that, the
12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (b) onApril 23 ,1924 decided to test a new system of the administrative division in two experimental areas: one industrially developed and one agricultural. The South-East became a testing ground for the new system in the agricultural area. OnFebruary 13 ,1924 , the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) officially defined the South-East as the area comprising the territories of Don and Kuban Oblasts, Tersk and Stavropol Governorates, the city ofGrozny , and Kabardino-Balkar, Karachay-Cherkess, Adyghe-Cherkess, andChechen Autonomous Oblast s [The names of some of these administrative units, as used in the definition of the South-East, are inconsistent with their official names. The area of the South-East itself was inconsistently referred to as either "South-East", or "South-Eastern Oblast", or "South-Eastern Krai".] and mandated its division into districts ("raion s") by the end of 1924. OnJune 2 ,1924 , the Presidium of the VTsIK established a list of the newokrug s and districts into which the "South-Eastern Krai (Oblast)" was to be divided. At the same time, Kuban Black Sea Oblast was abolished and replaced with four new okrugs, which were further divided into districts by the Executive Committee of Kuban Black Sea Oblast onJuly 19 ,1924 .South-Eastern Krai was renamed
North Caucasus Krai by the Resolution of the Presidium of the VTsIK ofOctober 16 ,1924 and by the Resolution of the Krai Executive Committee ofNovember 16 ,1924 .References and notes
*Cite book
last=Азаренкова
first=А. С.
coauthors=И. Ю. Бондарь, Н. С. Вертышева
title=Основные административно-территориальные преобразования на Кубани (1793-1985 гг.)
origyear=1986
year=1986
publisher=Краснодарское книжное издательство
language=Russian
pages=394
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