Formation of Border Line between Kazakhstan and Siberia in 1920s - Early 1930s (The Case of Cherlaksky District)

Abstract

The process of changing the border line of the Akmola province of the Kazak Autonomous Republic (until 1925 - the Kyrgyz Republic) of the Autonomous Republic with the adjacent territory of the Omsk District of the Siberian Territory (until 1925 - the Omsk Province), consisting in the transition of the Cherlak District (Stepanovskaya, Dobrovolskaya, Cherlakskaya and part of the Bostandyk-Tuska Volost) to the Omsk District in the second half of the 1920s is considered in the article. On the basis of archival documents first involved in the scientific revolution, a detailed analysis of the inclusion of the Cherlaksky district in the Omsk province is carried out. The history of this border issue in 1922-1923, the reason for which was the petition of residents of border villages is discussed in the article. The course and features of the consideration of this issue by local and central authorities, the work of the conciliation commission for the reception and transfer of Cherlak territory are described. It is concluded that the transfer of the Cherlak district to Omsk took place under the conditions of the manifestation of an active civic position of local residents, support for this border issue by the Cossack and Siberian authorities and was carried out only after the general regionalization of Kazakhstan by the end of the 1920s.