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Uzbekistan SSR

CENTRAL ASIAN ECONOMIC COUNCIL UNDER THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS OF THE UNION OF THE SSR (SREDAZECOSO)

Fond Number:
R-9
Storage Unit:
3682
Chronological framework:
1926 - 1934

Organization history

After the national demarcation of Central Asia, the functions of the Central Asian Economic Council from November 25, 1924 were transferred to the Office of the Plenipotentiary Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR in Central Asia; the latter was abolished in July, 1926 and was re-established on July 30, 1926. The Central Asian Economic Council under the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR in order to strengthen economic ties between the Uzbek SSR, the Turkmen SSR, the Tajik ASSR and the Kirghiz Autonomous Region to simplify their economic ties with the USSR. It was liquidated by the decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on October 3, 1934.


Fond description

Decrees and minutes of meetings of the Council of People’s Commissars, the Council of Labor and Defense, the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR, the Central Asian Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the development of the national economy of Central Asia; minutes of meetings of the presidium and verbatim records of the plenums of Sredazekoso; regulations on Sredazekoso, Sredazgosplan, Commissioners of the Main Cotton Committee and the Collective Farm Center of the USSR in Central Asia.


Matters of economic planning Central Asia

(1926-1933)

Five-year perspective plans and control figures for the development of all branches of the national economy of Central Asia (1928-1932, 1933-1937) and programs for their compilation. Market Survey of the World Economy (1924).

Correspondence with the State Planning Commissions of the republics of Central Asia on the preparation of five-year and annual economic plans for Central Asia.

Market surveys of the national economy of Central Asia and the conclusions of the Sredazgosplan on them.

Information bulletins of the Central Asian branch of the Commercial Telegraph Agency and statistical information on the movement of prices for industrial and food products in Central Asia.




Issues of studying the productive forces of Central Asia

(1926-1933)

Minutes of the meetings of the Bureau of Congresses for the Study of the Productive Forces of Central Asia and regulations on it; work plans, programs, reports and abstracts for reports at the I and II All-Union conferences on the study of the productive forces of Central Asia; reviews of research papers on the economy of Central Asia.

Reports of expeditions on fishery research of Lake Balkhash, hydrogeological and fisheries research on Lake Issyk-Kul, purchase of breeding horses within Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, survey of the economic state of cotton collective farms of the Uzbek SSR and the use of female labor in agriculture.

Correspondence with the Bureau of Congresses for the Study of Productive Forces under the State Planning Committee of the USSR on the role of scientific institutions of the Uzbek SSR in the study of the productive forces of the republic, preparations for the convening of the All-Union Congress for the study of the productive forces of Central Asia.


Industry issues

(1926-1934)

Minutes of meetings of the industrial section of the Sredazgosplan on the reorganization of the metalworking industry in Central Asia; a review of the state of the metal-working industry in Central Asia (1931) and the prospects for its development in the II Five-Year Plan Resolutions and minutes of meetings of Sredazekoso on the reorganization of the coal industry, reports and reports on the activities of the trust Sredazugol.

Plans, reports and explanatory notes on the needs and supply of the republics of Central Asia with fuel.

A schematic plan for the reconstruction of the cotton ginning industry in Uzbekistan in the first five years (1928-1932) and Sredazekoso’s reports on the reconstruction of ginneries in Central Asia, correspondence on the organization of an exhibition in Tashkent on the results of socialist construction and prospects for the further development of the cotton industry and cotton growing.

Reports of the Authorized People’s Commissariat of Workers’ Krestan Inspectorate of the USSR in Central Asia on the state of sericulture and the silk processing industry and Central Asia and the prospects for their development.

Reports and information on the results of the work of the silk-winding factories of the trust “Sredazshelk” in the first five-year plan (1928-1932) and measures for the development of the silk-winding industry in Central Asia by the beginning of the second five-year plan.

Essays on the current state and prospects for the development of sericulture and the silk processing industry in Central Asia, memorandums from the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on conducting green-cocoon campaigns.

Reports and conclusions of the Central Asian Scientific Research Institute of Sericulture on the reconstruction of the silk processing industry of the Uzbek SSR and the experience of the generalization of sericulture in the collective farms of Central Asia.

Survey programs for spinning and weaving mills in Central Asia; memorandum on the characteristic features and characteristics of the kendyr culture and its primary processing in the textile industry.

Resolution of the Collegium of the authorized workers of the Krestan inspection of the USSR on the progress of fishing and the state of the fishing industry in Turkmenia, reports on the prospects for the development of the canning industry, an increase in sugar production at the Kaunchinsky sugar factory, and the construction of a sugar factory in the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; reviews of the development of the horticultural and vineyard economy and the wine industry, the development of the essential oil industry, statistical information on the production of oil mills from canning factories (1928, 1932-1934).

Memorandums on the current state of the handicraft industry in Central Asia, the situation of handicraft cooperation in Kyrgyzstan and measures for its development.



Agricultural issues (1926-1934)

Reports on collective farm construction in Central Asia (1925-1928) and prospects for the development of collective farms in the first five-year plan, on the main types of agriculture in the Uzbekistan SSR and their share in the economy of individual districts, prospects for the development of special crops in Central Asia (1927-1932). Minutes of the meeting of Sredazekoso on the reorganization of the cotton business in Central Asia.

Market reviews of cotton growing in Central Asia, memorandums on the impact of land reform (1925-1927) on the development of cotton growing and measures to increase the yield of cotton.

Plans for the development of sericulture in the republics of Central Asia, market reviews of sericulture, reports on agricultural activities for sericulture, correspondence with the STO of the USSR on the development of sericulture in Central Asia.

Reports and resolutions of the Central Asian Agricultural Congress on the development of animal husbandry in Central Asia; reviews of the state of herds in the pastoral regions of Central Asia (1930), reports on the development of astrakhan breeding, the organization of sheep-breeding state farms and collective farm commodity farms, plans for improving and developing sheep breeding in the Uzbek SSR (1926-1932), increasing the number of cattle, building meat farms.

Conclusions on the state of beekeeping, horticulture, viticulture and forestry in Central Asia and measures for their development.

Reports of scientific research institutions of Central Asia on experimental work and research on tanning agents, fibrous, ornamental, bulbous and rhizomatous plants of Central Asia, on the work of the Central Asian office “Lektekhsyrye” and measures for the development of essential oil and medicinal crops in Central Asia.

Decrees of the Council of People’s Commissars and the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR on irrigation construction and operation of irrigation systems in Central Asia, regulations on water reclamation partnerships and the water management committee under Sredazekoso; five-year long-term action plans for irrigation in the basins of the Syr-Darya, Amu-Darya, Surkhan-Darya, Kashka-Darya, Chirchik, Angren, Thalassa, Murgab, reports on the state of irrigation systems, the activities of reclamation cooperation of the Central Asian republics, about ways to conserve irrigation systems in Central Asia; Bulletins of water management bodies of Central Asia.

Plans for land management work on the old-timer lands and on the lands of new irrigation (1928-1933), reports of the people’s commissariats of the republics of Central Asia on the implementation of land and water reform, land management and water management on the irrigated lands of Central Asia, the conduct of a demographic census in Central Asia. A review of the socio-economic and industrial-technical significance of land management in the republics of Central Asia and the organization of farms in the newly irrigated areas of Central Asia.

Information about the quantitative movement of tractors and agricultural machines in the republics of Central Asia.


Issues of industrial and civil construction

(1926-1934)

Long-term plans for housing and communal construction and improvement of cities in the USSR and the republics of Central Asia, plans for the delivery of building materials to Central Asia. The need for funds for industrial construction and electrification of the Uzbekistan SSR.

Transcripts of the 2nd Central Asian Construction Conference, reports of construction organizations; reports on the progress of construction work, correspondence on the progress of industrial construction, the results and prospects for the development of electrification in Central Asia, the progress of the construction of educational institutions.


Issues of transport and communications

(1926-1934)

Reports of the Executive Commissariat of the USSR in Central Asia on railway construction, operation of the Central Asian Railway and the prospects for the development of railway and auto-horse transport in Central Asia. Minutes of the meetings of the Committee for Assistance to the Construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway.

Reports on the work of the Central Asian Shipping Company, on the transportation of goods, reports on the prospects for the development of waterways on the river. Amu-Darya, the Aral Sea and Lake Issyk-Kul, verbatim reports of general meetings of the joint-stock company “Dobrolet”, reports on the reorganization of air lines in Central Asia.

Decrees of the People’s Commissariat of Communications of the USSR and Sredazekoso on the work of communications bodies in Central Asia, the state and development of communications, the training of qualified communications personnel from the indigenous population, and the improvement of telecommunications in the republics of Central Asia.

Perspective plans for the improvement and development of all types of communications in Central Asia, reports on the activities of the Central Asian Communications Department.


Financial matters

(1926-1934)

Decrees of the Council of People’s Commissars and the Council of Labour and Defense of the USSR and the Presidium of Srelazekoso on financing the national economy of Central Asia, reorganizing long-term industrial credit, and developing savings banks in cotton regions. Financial plans and reports on the work of banks, savings banks and the main sectors of the national economy of Central Asia, reports on the role of tax policy in the development of cotton growing. Control figures for the budgets of the Central Asian republics, reports on the activities of mutual credit societies, information on money circulation in Central Asia.



Matters of culture, work and life

(1926-1934)

Curriculm and reports on the work of high schools and technical schools.

Decrees of the Central Executive Committee, the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the Sredazburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the minutes of the meetings of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the organization of research work on cotton growing, the mechanization of agriculture, the cultivation of rubber plants and the use of solar energy, on the deployment of research institutes in Central Asia. Work plans and reports on the activities of research institutes in Central Asia, scientific expeditions and experimental stations.

Plans and reports of the People’s Commissariat of Health of the Republics of Central Asia on sanitary and recreational activities, conclusions on the reports of the Sredazgosplan on the state and prospects of healthcare in Central Asia; work plans and reports on the activities of the Central Asian resorts.

Decrees of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and Sredazekoso on measures to organize labor and provide enterprises with a workforce, train a skilled workforce for construction, organize the Central Asian Institute of Labor Protection, transfer enterprises to a continuous working week, and prepare for the opening and holding of in Tashkent of the Central Asian Spartakiad (1934), on the construction of the Central Sports Complex in Tashkent.

Matters of trade and supply

(1926-1934)

Plans for the importation and sale of goods to the republics of Central Asia, market reviews and reviews of the activities of trade organizations of the republics of Central Asia; reports on the work of the Central Asian Eastern Chamber of Commerce and the Tashkent Commodity Exchange, on the supply of bread to the Central Asian republics. Decrees and circulars of the CTO and the People’s Commissariat of Trade of the USSR and Sredazekoso on the work of the Central Asian commodity exchanges, the reorganization of the customs institutions of Central Asia and Central Asian fairs; reports on the work of commodity exchanges and customs.

Market data on the movement of retail chains for goods in urban and rural areas reports on the procurement of industrial raw materials and agricultural products.


Cooperation issues

(1926-1934)

Decrees of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR on the reorganization of agricultural cooperation work plans for agricultural cooperation in the Tajik SSR (1929-1930), reports, reports and information from cooperative bodies on the situation of agricultural, cotton growing, consumer cooperation and measures to strengthen it.