Источники по учреждению и использованию Госфонда «Черных земель» в Калмыкии в 1930-е гг.

Abstract

Goals. The article aims to examine newly identified archival sources on the establishment and use of Chornye Zemli state land fund in 1930s Kalmykia, including the issue of land allocation for farms from neighboring regions of South Russia for pastoral livestock breeding. Results. The paper analyzes resolutions and official correspondence between central authorities of the USSR, RSFSR, Kalmyk ASSR, krais and oblasts adjacent to Kalmykia. The work shows the early 1930s witnessed that Chornye Zemli (Russ. ‘Black Lands’) started gaining a special status as a pasture territory of interregional significance. This status was completely consolidated by Resolution of the USSR Council of People’s Commissars of 17 June 1936 no. 1054 which granted farms of neighboring regions from the south of the RSFSR and Georgian SSR a right to receive grazing plots in Chornye Zemli of Kalmykia for long-term free use — for a period of 15 years.