Постоянное представительство Кыргызстана при Президиуме ВЦИК в 1924–1927 гг.

Abstract

The aim of the study is to consider the history of the establishment and activities of the Permanent Mission of Kyrgyzstan in Moscow under the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in the period of 1924 to 1927. The study is based on archival materials identified in the Central State Archive of the Kyrgyz Republic. In particular, I studied the affairs of the 1246 fund, dedicated to the representation of Kyrgyzstan at the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in the period of 1924 to 1930. The documents represent a working correspondence between the Permanent Mission and the Soviet state and economic bodies of Kyrgyzstan and RSFSR. In addition, each quarter, the Mission sent information on the work done to the central Kyrgyzstan authorities. The Permanent Mission under the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee was established in November 1924 by a resolution of the Revolutionary Committee of the Soviets of Kyrgyzstan. The Mission was headed by a prominent statesman Turdaly Tokbayev. Starting in January 1925, Tokbayev, together with his deputy Drugov, carried out work on the actual organization of the Mission. The main tasks of the Mission were to protect and promote the interests of Kyrgyzstan in the highest central state and economic institutions. Also, the Permanent Mission carried out foreign trade operations of the republic. The protection and promotion of the interests of Kyrgyzstan was expressed in the filing of requests for political, financial and material support for events held in the republic in the frame of Soviet nation-building and economic construction. In particular, the Mission sought to increase the volume of bank capital, restore agriculture, provide consumer goods, provide a fuel-energy basis and transport infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan. In addition, the Mission worked to attract professional managerial, economic and sanitary-medical personnel, establish state borders, as well as normalize interethnic relations in Kyrgyzstan. The Mission achieved considerable results in the scientific, educational and printing spheres. The Mission also actively supported the strengthening of cultural ties between Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Thus, the organization and activities of the Permanent Mission in Moscow in 1924–1927 solved a number of important tasks of the national-state and cultural-economic construction of Kyrgyzstan. The Mission was able to achieve the allocation of significant financial resources for the development of key economic sectors, which led to economic growth in the country. The Mission successfully resolved issues related to the establishment of state borders of the republic and in the social and cultural spheres of Kyrgyzstan. In general, the activities of the Mission contributed to the increase of the state-legal status of Kyrgyzstan from an autonomous region to an autonomous republic in 1926.