Argayash National Okrug Explained

Native Name:Аргаяшский национальный округ
Arƣajaş milli okrugь
Conventional Long Name:Argayash National Okrug
Common Name:Argayash National Okrug
Subdivision:Autonomous Okrug
Nation:the Soviet Union
Year Start:1934
Date Start:17 January
Year End:1934
Date End:17 November
Event Pre:Argayash Canton of the Bashkir ASSR established
Date Pre:15 November 1917
Capital:Argayash
Political Subdiv:2 raions
Stat Year1:1933
Stat Area1:6772
Stat Pop1:88900

The Argayash National Okrug (Russian: Аргая́шский национа́льный о́круг ; Bashkir: Арғаяш милли округы Arğayaş milli okrugı; Bashkir) was a national okrug for the Bashkirs of the Chelyabinsk Oblast of the RSFSR in the Soviet Union. It existed from January to November 1934.

History

On 15 November 1917, Trans-Ural Bashkiria was added to the nascent Bashkurdistan by decision of the Bashkir Central Soviet as Argayash Canton. Although an exclave surrounded by the RSFSR proper, this canton existed as an administrative and territorial unit of the Bashkir Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic until 1930. In that year, the cantonal system of administration was eliminated and the former Argayash Canton was organized as two raions, Argayash and Kunashak, while remaining a part of the Bashkir ASSR.

On 17 January 1934, the Ural Oblast of the RSFSR which surrounded the former Argayash Canton was disbanded by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and divided into three new oblasts, one of which was Chelyabinsk Oblast. On the same day, the area was transferred to this new oblast as the Argayash National Okrug.[1]

Later that year, on 17 November 1934, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee liquidated the national okrug and the area was thenceforth administered as a normal part of Chelyabinsk Oblast. There was some popular interest in reviving the okrug in the Argayash and Kunashak areas of the oblast in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but no official action was taken and the area remains a part of Chelyabinsk Oblast, now a part of the Russian Federation.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Постановление ВЦИК от 17 января 1934 года «О разделении Уральской области» . 2015-10-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150722070744/http://bestpravo.ru/sssr/eh-gosudarstvo/z2o.htm . 2015-07-22 .