Science and Education in Karakalpakstan issn 2181-9203 Science Magazine chief editor

 
Jumaniyazov D.K. 
Karakalpak State university named after Berdakh 
 
Summary: 
This article analyzes the personnel policy of the Soviet government in the 
Amudarya region in the conditions of Sovietization in 1920-1924. In 1918-1924, there was no 
special training of personnel from local nationalities. The center preferred the split of the national 
society and Muslim unity along class lines, the expansion of the national base of Soviet power at the 
expense of the "labor strata" of the local population, which underwent ideological "reforging". 
Keywords: 
Amudarya region, the Executive Committee, A. Khristoforov, M. Baldzhanov, A. 
Dosnazarov, the temporary revolutionary committee of the Amudarya region, "landing forces" of 
party-soviet and economic workers.
On October 10, 1920, the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Soviets of the 
Turkestan Republic transformed the Amudarya department within the former territory into the 
Amudarya region. The capital of the region was Petro-Aleksandrovsk, now renamed the city of 
Turtkul. According to the administrative-territorial principle, the region was divided into two 
counties: Shurakhansky and Chimbaysky. The Provisional Regional Revolutionary Committee was 
formed, consisting of 5 members. The Regional Revolutionary Committee had no right to negotiate 
with the Khorezm Republic. Also, the Regional Revolutionary Committee did not have the right to 
conduct trade relations with neighboring states [1.6]. 
On December 7, 1920, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of 
the Turkestan Republic approved the “Regulations on the Amudarya Region”. 
In pursuance of the Decree of the IXth Congress of Soviets of the Turkestan Republic "On 
the transition from Revolutionary Committees to Executive Committees" (September 1920), the 
Revolutionary Committee of the Amudarya Department created a regional commission, which 
began work on November 20, 1920 and was supposed to complete all work by the 1st January 
1921[2.6].
The chairman of the Amudarya Provisional Regional Revolutionary Committee, N. 
Soldatov, in a memorandum dated November 25, 1920 addressed to the Central Executive 
Committee of the Soviets of the Turkestan Republic and the People's Commissariat of Internal 
Affairs, proposed introducing a full-time position of political leaders at the regional and county 
executive committees on a republican scale. “The motive for the need to create this position,” wrote 
N. Soldatov, “is that people on the ground are poorly prepared and still they have not yet eradicated 
a kindred feeling, which is why there are such absurd resolutions that do not stand up to any 
criticism, and so, in order to direct and to some extent direct the work of the Executive Committees 
in the field, persons appointed from above are needed, who will keep the Executive Committees 
from mistakes and absurd resolutions. The second motive is the information side, which also suffers 
a lot. The Center is poorly informed in places, despite the fact that a number of orders are being 
written in this regard and the places are also poorly informed by the Center, and in this respect this 
person will be the link” [3.28].
N. Soldatov essentially proposed to transfer the institute of political commissars of the army 
to the administration of the region. This proposal of N. Soldatov was not accepted by the central 
bodies of the Turkestan Republic. 
The construction of the apparatus of Soviet construction went extremely abnormally and 
often took on an ugly form, and this prompted the departments of the Amu Darya executive 

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