The protection of all historical monuments and art was entrusted to the Commission of the Central Administration of Archives of the Turkestan Republic by the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of the Turkestan ASSR on January 30, 1920. The Committee for the Affairs of Museums and the Protection of Monuments of Antiquity, Arts and Nature of the Turkestan Republic (Turkomstaris) was established on May 21, 1921 by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan ASSR. Turkomstaris was reorganized into Sredazkomstaris with subordination to the Medium Economic Council on December 26, 1924.
It was liquidated by the resolution of the Central Economic Council of April 7, 1928.
Decrees and circulars of the Central Executive Committee, Council of People's Commissars and the People's Commissariat of Education of the Turkestan ASSR and the Uzbek SSR on the organization of the protection of monuments of antiquity and art.
The meeting protocols of the Presidium of the Central Asian Economic Council, meetings of the Council of Turkomstaris and Sredazkomstaris, the expert commission, the editorial board, the museum section, the nature protection section, meetings of the archaeological and restoration commission, the council of the Main Central Asian Museum.
Five-year perspective plan of Turkomstaris (1920-1925); plans for the works of the museum section (1926-1927), the nature protection section, the Art Museum and the Zoological Garden (1927-1928).
Reviews of the activities of Turkomstaris (1920-1925), regional and district museums, the Main Central Asian Museum (1923).
Regulations on the Polytechnic and Scientific-Historical Museums, the Museum of the Revolution, the Museum of Russian Art, the Main Central Asian Museum and the Zoological Garden; reports on expeditions and excursions, lists of the collection of negatives and albums of Sredazkomstaris.
