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Established on the basis of the order of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan region on November 23, 1917. Liquidated in November 1924 in connection with the national demarcation of Central Asia

The People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR was established by the decision of the V Congress of the Turkestan Republic Soviets on April 30, 1918. The mission of the Turkomnats People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR included: actualize the ideas of the Soviet authority among the respective nationalities in their native language; taking all measures to increase the cultural level and class consciousness among the masses of nationalities inhabiting the territory of the republic;  to struggle against counter-revolution in all national manifestations; to react against national-bourgeois governments; collection of statistical data on nationalities.

The People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR temporarily suspended its activities on December 10, 1919 and later was again functioned by the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the Turkestan ASSR on September 21, 1921. It was liquidated by the order of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR on July 14, 1922.

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The Ukrainian working house was formed on March 7, 1920. On June 10, 1923 it was liquidated.