USSR TERRITORIAL-ADMINSTRATIVE CHANGES, (TWO)

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 CLASSIFICATION C_0;, n CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS COUNTRY USSR SUBJECT Geographic; Political - Administration HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, official gazette WHERE PUBLISHED USSR DATE PUBLISHED 7 Jan-23 Apr 1954 LANGUAGE Russian REPORT CD NO. DATE OF INFORMATION 1954 DATE DIST. .g Sept 1954 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION USSITORIAL-ADMINISTRATIV CHANGES TWO (Comment: The following territorial-administrative changes were reported in the January_April 1954 Soviet press. The dates of the ukases establishing the changes are given when available. The ukases are arranged alphabetically by republic, and are listed chronologically by source dates thereunder. Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.) AZFRBAYDZHAN SSR By a 9 March 1954 decree the Supreme Soviet Azerbaydzhan SSR confined the 28 January 1954 ukase of the Presidium, abolishing Samukhskiy Rayon.(1) Supreme Soviet Azerbaydzhan SSR, By a 4 February 1954 ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Azerbaydzhan SSR, the city of Mingechaur, Khaldanskiy Rayon, is designated a city of re- public subordination.(2) BELORUSSIAN SSR The Presidium, Supreme Soviet USSR, by an the proposal of the Presidium 8 January 1954 ukase confirmed following oblasts: , Supreme Soviet Belorussian SSR, to abolish the Baranovichskaya Oblast, its territory being transferred as follows Bytenskiy, Gorodishchenskiy, Lyakhovichskiy, and Novomyshskiy rayons and the city of Baranovichi to Brestskaya Oblast; Dyatlovskiy, Kozlovshchinskiy, Kor- elichskiy, Lyubchanskiy, Mirskiy, Novogrudskiy, and Slon.imskiy rayons to Grod- nenskaya Oblast; Kletskiy, Nesvizhskiy, and Stolbtsovskiy rayons to Minskaya Oblast; and Ivenetskiy Rayon to Molodechnenskaya Oblast. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 I KOPY1'ski ? '?t1O115xiy rayons to Gome.l'skaysV Ob. ie rea as follows __ dorozhskiy rayons , ,oandbthekcit Lo ban'skiy, Slutski Glusskiy, nd.Steiy KirovskiY, Y Slutsk to Minskaya Oblast; andv Au fitaro_ yski Klichevskiy, and OsiPOvichskiy rayons and the city of Bobr Bobruysk to Mogilevskaya Oblast. to Polotskaya Oblast, its territory being transferred as follows Vetrinskiy, Drissenskiy, Osveyskiy, Polotskiy, Rossonski rayons and the city of Polotsk to Vitebskaya Oblast; zovskiy, Glubokski Y, and Jshachskiy and Plisskiy, Disnenskiy, Dokshitski kiy.MiorskiVid- Y, and Sharkovshchinskiy rayons to ofodechechnens nsl kaya ya ObOblasstt.' at', M.ol. Pinskaya Oblast, its territory being transferred to Brestskaya Oblast. Oblast. Polesskaya Oblast, its territory being transferred ro G mel'sh-- nYfl By an 8 January 1954 ukase of the Presidium Supreme Soviet Belorussian SSR, Iv'yevskiy Rayon of Molodechnenskaya Oblast and RuzhanskiY skaya Oblast are transferred to Grodnenskaya Oblast,(3) Rayon of Brest- GEORGIAN SSR By ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Georgian SSR, the following pop ulated Points are designated workers' settlements: Populated point at the construction site of Iadzhanurska a hoc Power Station near Lrdzhan Village, Tsagerski urGES Tsentral n ' y Hydroelec- yy Workers Settlement. Y Rayon; being named dz- Populated point at the construction site of Ladzhanurskaya Hydroelec- tric Power Station near Adzhar Villagc, being named dzhanurGFS Workers' Set- Populated point at the construction site of Gumatska a 1 Power Station between Rioni and Dzhimastaro villages, Kutaisskiy Rayon, GumatiGES Workers' Settlement. Y dydroe ectric , being PopnulatednearpointDzevriat theVillageconstruction viesiitenit of Tkibul'ska Power Sta tio in the and Rayon, being Hydroelectric named TkibulGES Workers' Settlement, Y of Tsintskil, Terzhol'skiy Populated point at the construction site of Sionskiy Reservoir near Sioni Village, Tianetskiy Rayon, being named Sionstroy Workers: Settlement. By these same ukase the populated point at the construction site of Lad- zhanurskaya Hydroelectric Power Station near Chkhuteli Village, TsagerskiY Rayon, is included in Tsageri Settlement. By ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Georgian SSR, the settlement (poseleniye) of the construction section of Gardabanskiy Rayon is combined with a group of villages and named Gamardzhveba Village. Camardzhveba Village is separated from Agtaglinskiy Village Soviet, and Gamardzhvebskiy Village Soviet is formed. By Ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Georgian SSR, Populated point at Anaseul skit' Scientific Research Institute and Ekadia 'il'age are separated from Makvanetskiy Village Soviet, Makharadzevskiy Rayon. and made administra- tively subordinate to Makharadze City Soviet.(4) - 2 - C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 LATVIAN SSR By a 22 January 1954 ukase of the Presidi m, Supreme Soviet Latvian SSR, Populated point of Sedas, Valkskiy Rayon, is designated a worker:` settlement. (2) RSFSR By ukases of 6 January 1954 the Presidium; Supreme Soviet ''SSR, con- firmed the proposal of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet RSFSR, on the formation of the following oblasts; Balashovskaya Oblast, with its center in the city of Ba'ashov, and consisting of the cities of Balashov and Rtishchevo of SaraUxskaya Oblast and Borisoglebsk of Voronezhskaya Oblast and the fo].lnw!n3 rayons _... Arkad _ Novo,Pokrovski skiy, Kazachkinski Romantendey,kiy, Krasavskiy;; Makarovskly, ovoylovski Y, Rodnichkovski wskiy, Rtishchevskiy, Salt.ykovskiy, ovski y, and Turkovskiy rayons of Saratovskaya Oblast; B'+darl.nskiy, yy82- Y, Dobrinskiy, Yelanskiy, Kikvidzenskiy, Lemeshkinskiy, Mac he shanski-y rayonsevskiy, Novo-Nikolayevskiy, Rudnyansk.ty, Uryn1pinskty and ILeonerskiy rayons of Stalingradskaya Oblast; Aleshkovskiy; Baychurovskiy, Verkhne-Karach- anskiy, Gribanovskiy, Kozlovskiy, Novokhoperskiy, okhoperskiy, Peskovskiy, Povot1 skit' Polyanskiy, and Ternovskiy rayons of Voronezhskaya Oblast; and MuchkaP? skiY and Shapkinskiy rayons of Tambovskaya Oblast, Belgorodskaya Oblast, with its center in the city of Belgorod_ and con- sisting of the cities of Belgorod and Staryy Oskol of Kurskaya Oblast and the following rayons -- Belgorodskly, Be.lenikhinskiy, Bobrovo.-Dvorskiy, Bol'she- Troitskiy, Borisovskiy, Valuyskiy, Veliko-Mikhaylovskiy, Vo.lokonovskiy, Gray- Oskolsskiy,lprokhorovskiy, Korochanskiy, asnoyaruzhskiy, Mikoyanovskiy; Novo- Oskol'skiy, Tomaro ovs yanskY, Sazhenskiy, Skorodnyanskty, Staro- Oskol ya Oblast; and it', Urazovs ly, Chernyanskiy and Shebekioskiy rayons of Karskaya b, tki y, Budennovskiy, Veydelevskiy iadomirovskiy, Oblast. Y, Ukolovskiy and Shatalovskiy rayons of Voronezhskaya Kamenskaya Oblast, with its center in the city of Kamenek-Shakhtinskiy, and consisting of the cities of Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy: Shakhty, Krasnyy SUIin, Millerovo, and Novoshakhtinsk and the following rayons ?.- Alekseyevo-Zgzovsk!y, Bazkovskiy, Belokalitvenskiy, Bokovskty, Verkhnedonskoy, '/eshensk-1y; Voloshin- skiY, Glubokinskiy, Zverevskiy, Kamenskly, Kash arskdy; Kiyevskiy, Ko-ushl!nskiy Konstantinovskiy, Kr asnogvardeyskiy, Krivorozhsk!y, Litvinovskty, Mai'chevskiy Migulinskiy, Milyutinskiy, Morozovskiy, Nikolayevskiy, Oblivskly, Ok?,yabr'sk!y, Razdorskiy, Selivanov$kiy Sknsyrekiy, Tarasovskiy, Tatsinskiy. Tsimlyanski Chernyshevskiy and Chertkovskiy rayons of Rostovskaya Oblast; and Bogucharskly, Kantemirovski y~ ante Oblast; Mikhayiovskiy, Pisarevskiy and Radchenskiy rayons of Voronezh-Skaya skiy Rayons of Stab y' Oblast. ?vskiy, Serafinovichskiy, and Chernyshkov- ngradskays Oblast. ing of OLipetblast,skwofithVoronezhskayaits center k and consist- Oblast and the following rayons -?- Borinskiy, VodoP hevskiy G Szinskiy, Dmitryashevskiy Dobrinskiy, Lipetski Yanov.kiy, tskjy. vskiy ry- y, Khvorostyanskiy and Khlevenskiy rayons of V'oronezhskayyc, Oblast; Vol nskin Dolgorukovskiy, Yeletskiy, Zadonskiy, .Izmalk,vskiy, Krasninsk_y, Stanovl eYanskiy, Chernavskiy and Chibisovskiy rayons of Orlovskaya Oblast; Berezovskty, Vo kresy, Dankovskiy, Dobrovskiy, Kolybel'skiy, Lebedyanskiy, Lev-Tolstovskiy, Troyekurovskiy, Trubetchinskiy and Chaplyginskiy rayons of Ryazanskaya Oblast; and Bol'she-Polyanskiy, Volovskiy and Terbunskiy rayons of Kurskaya Oblast. - 3 - C-0-N-F-1-D?-E-N-T-I-A-1, Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 -N-T- I -A -L the proposal of the 1954 ukase the Presidium, Supreme Soviet USSR, confirmed the prYa Oblast withresidium, Supreme Soviet RS-SR , on the fo_ cities of A zam J. its center in the city of Ar.z 'nation of Arza- Oblast; as, Vyksu, and Kulebaki auras, and consisting Ardatovskiy, Arzamasski and the following rayons of Ookovska Buturlinskiy, Vadskiy, Y, Bo1 'she -Bold ins kiy, Bol'she- y ea Oktyabr'skiy, Knyagininskiygu1eb skit', Kurmy, CaginskiyL, Diveyevskiy,vs - es skiy~, Pil , Mukhtolovskiy, Naruksovskiy, p ukoyanovski eryoanhski Y. MO rdordovsh- skiy, Y Y.aPochinkovsklY, Razinsk, Y, Perevozskiy, Petryaksin- Smirnovskly,Spasskiy, TalyzinsklYiy, Salbaisk.ty, Sergachskiy SrYaksv- , Chernukhinskiy and Shatkovskiy. BY ukases of 22 December 1953 the Presidium, Supreme the following territorial-administrative changes ovfet RSFSR . , decreed Ves'yegonsk Workers' Settlement, Ves'yeggnskl Oblast, is designated a city of rayon subordination, Y Rayon Ka].ininskaya Hated a cite city of Pushkino Pushkinskiy Rayon, Moskovska Y of Oblast subordination. Ya Oblast is desig- The center of Buynakskiy Rayon, DadestanskaYa ASSR, is transferred from Nizhneye Kazanishche Village (selen' ye) to Buynaksk city. of CoreloTee following are designated workers' settlements - sfaya eloy of the suburban zone (prigorodnOY zon of - P(city)ed point Oblast being named Shumikhinski Y) o- Gubakha (it.y) MOlotov- R8 oYnRayon, Moskovskaya Oblast; and Y' d ated point, Of Kapetn a seyski Y , Krasnoyarskfy Kr Populateated point of MaklakOVO, Y ' - _},kiy By a 14 January 1954 ukase of the Presidium, Supreme e anovskiy Village Soviet of Yelovskiy Rayon, Molotovs Sovf to Votkinskiy Rayon t RSFSR, ep- ka , Udmurtskaya ASSR. Ya Oblast, is transtsferred By 14 and 19 January 1954 ukases of the Presidium the following are designated workers' settlements. Supreme Soviet RSFu"R, Primorskiy Populated Artemgres of the subur?gan zone of dilate to Artem Cit abed Ar temovskiy and made administr ivn *city), y Soviet. ?Ly subor- Populated points Rayon, Primor skiy Kay{6 ray.(6)of Khrvstal'nYy and 7erkhre-Imansk' T ~Y. et.yukhin^,kiy By a 24 February 1954 ukase the the proposal of the presidium presidium, Supreme Soviet 1SS zhikau (cit , Supreme Soviet RSFSR, changin t "na confirmed Y), Severn-Osetinskaya ASSR, to Ordzhonikidze (cittyj. name n of Dzaud- BY a 19 February 1954 ukase the Presidium, Supreme Soviet U5S the Joint proposal of the Presidiums of the Supreme Sovi the Ukrainian SSR on the transfer R, confirmed Ukrainian of Kr et of the RSFSR and SSR.(7) ymskaya Oblast from the RSFSF to the By a 7 April 1954 ukase the Presidium, Supreme Soviet USS Station of the Volga Railway System as S R , confirmed the proposal of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet ASFSR, to rename Voroponovo Station imeni Maksim Co Railway By ukases of 25 r kiy. center of Ares of ki y RMarch ayon,9Arztamasskaya O Su. reme SovleRSFS ,-rrrsferred ty,.. Vyyezdnoye Village, and transferred Ya Olast, from the c;ty Of Burednoye Village, Khabarovsk Cheugdinskfy Village S Arzerkh to last. Y Kray, to Bureyskiy Rayon, , Amur mvietskaya from ne- Oblast. 4 - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L By a 1 April 1954 ukase of the Presidium. Supreme Soviet RSFSR; the fol- lowing populated points are designated workers' settlements: Lesnoy, Pushkinskiy Rayon; Sokol'niki, Gremyachevskiy Rayon; and Per- vVoom yskiy, Shakhterskiy and Oktyabr'skiy, Donskiy Rayon -- all of Moskovskaya last. Divan' Suburban Zone of Komsomol 'sk-na-Amuse; KGiabarovskiy Kray. Sozimskiy, Kayskiy Rayon, Kirovskaya Oblast. Buron, Sadonskiy Rayon, Severo-Osetinskaya ASSR, By a 3 April ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet RSFSR the following rayons are abolished in Leningradskaya Oblast; Voznesenskiy Rayon, its territory being transferred to Podporozhskiy Rayon. Primorskiy Rayon, its territory being transferred to Roshchinskiy Rayon. Pargolovskiy Rayon, its territory being transferred to Vsevolozhskiy TADZHIK SSR By ukases of 29 December 1953 the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Tadzhik SSR, designated Kirovabad City-Type Settlement, Kirovabadskiy Rayon, a city of rayon subordination and Gissar Village (kishlak), Gissarskiy Rayon, a city- type settlement.(6) The Supreme Soviet Tadzhik SSR on 2 March 1954 issued decrees confirming the following ukases of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Tadzhik SSR: Ukase of 24 September 1953 abolishing Yaks',,,." Village (kishlak) Soviet, Dangarinskiy Rayon, Kulyabskaya Oblast. Ukase changing the territorial-administrative hmmdaries between Voro- shilovabad and Stakhanovskiy Village (kishlak) Soviets and combining Vcreshi10- vabad and Khushvakht Village (kishlak) Soviets, Kurgan-Tyubinsk.iy Rayon Ukase abolishing Kipchak Village (kishlak) Soviet. Gissarskly Raycn. Ukase abolishing Stalinskiy Village (kishlak) Soviet. Kzv.l-Mazerskty Rayon, Kulyabskaya Oblast. Ukase abolishing Zagara Villag, (kishlak) Soviet. Khovaiirgskiy Rayon, Kulyabskaya Oblast. Ukase abolishing Darai nazarak (sic) Village (kishlak) Soviet. Tadzhi- kabadskiy Rayon, Garmskaya Oblast. Ukase abolishing Devak Village (kishlak) Soviet, Regarskiy Rayon. Ukase abolishing Pushtimfona Village (kishlak) Soviet, Shakhri_naoskiy Ukase of 30 October 1953 abolishing Putup Vi.llaye (kishlak) Soviet. Ishkashimskiy Rayon, Gorno-Badakhshanskaya Atonomous Oblast. 5 C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 ':_7 -A.-!. Ukase zhonikidz ki -stal~?a the r.erritcria?-administrative bo'ndaries for Ord?- Yr talinabadskiy, and Dangainskiy Rayons, Kulyabskaya Oblast. Ukase of 30 November 1953 establishing boundaries between badskiy and Molotovabadskiy Rayons. Kaganovicha - Ukase changing the territorial-adminictrat?ive boundaries between Vatan and astDearyl Village (kishlak) Soviets, Parkharskiy Rayon; K lyabskaya Ob- . Ukase on the formation of Ku ?;say Settlement Soviet in T~eninabadskty Rayon, Leninabadskaya Oblast. Ukase changing the territorial-administrative boundaries 1etween Chil gazy and Shakhrak Village (kishlak) Soviets, f Oblast. s urinskiy Rayon; L=_nirabadskaya Ukase forming Oissar Settlement Soviet in is:arskiy Rayon. of 12 January 1954 abolishing Dubeda Village (kishlak) Soviet, Fayzabadskiyse Rayon (8) UKRAINIAN SSR at Mine ukas ses ofrtheaP esidium. Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SSR; the settlement shilovgradskaya Oblast, is designatedlagci.ty-type setttledent.an Rname Sever and settlement at Mine No 5-6, Volodarskiy Settlement Soviet and named Severnyy, Rayon, is designated a city-type settlemen+ Sverdlovskiy &nd named 'fomsomol'sk skiy.{q) By a 7 January 1954 ukacc the Presidi?.:m. Supreme Soviet USSR, confirmed the proposal of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SSR, on the formation of Cherkasskaya Oblast with its center in the city of Cherkassy, and consisting of the cities of Cherkassy, Uman', and Smela and the following rayons' Baban- sky, Busy, Gorodishchenskiy, Zhashkovskiy, Zvenigorodskiy, Kanevskiy, Kat. Mokr erino oilskiy, Kor'-Shevchenkovskiy, Ladyzhinskiy, Lysyanskiy, Man'kovskly, skit', Kaligorskiy, Om y, Rotmistrovskiy, SmelyanskiY, Tal'novskiy, Uman- ski histI y, Cherkasskiy and Shpolyanskiy rayons from Kiyevskaya Ob- last; las Ch Gel el'myazovskiovskly, Drabovsomy, Zolotonoshsk y,t*rkie+evskty, Shrankovskiy rayons from Kirovogradskaya Oblast; and MoYnastyris.i.enskiy Rays henskly Rayonin and from Vtnn Kiy skaya Oblast.. nit- By a 6 January 1954 ukase of the Presidi'un,. Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SS11, Zgurovskiy and Yagotinskiy rayons are transferred from Poltavskaya Oblast to Kiyevskaya Oblast.(10) By a 16 January 1954 ukase of the Fre_idium. Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SSR, the city of Proskurov is renamed Khmel'nitskiy and Kamenets-Podol'skava Oblast is renamed Khmel'nitskaya Oblast in honor of the 300th anntversn_ of unification of the Ukraine and Russia and in memory of the service to the re ian and Russian peoples by military leader Bo , to thee Klunelnitskiy-(11) By a 17 February 1954 ukases of the Presidium. Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SSRskiy , Golov vskiy, fromoOdesskaya Oblasteto Kirovvogradskaya Oblas't,Yandvthevcityoolf are cmansk andd Bol'she-Vradiyevskiy, Domanevskiy, KrivoozerskiY Y a PPervozyy and er'12) kit' rayons are transferred from Odesskaya Oblast toNikocayevskayia,a. Oblast, ad;12; - Y- By a 15 February 1954 ukase the Presidium, Supreme Soviet USSR, confirmed the proposal of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SSR, on the abolition of Izmail'skaya Oblast and the transfer of its territory !c Odesskaya Oblast, 6- C-O-N_F_I I-A-L Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 M Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1 111 1 12 February Chigirinski 1954 ukase Of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Ukrainian (7) Y Rayon, Kirovogradskaya Oblast, is transferred to C an SSA, herkasskaya Ob- By a 26 March 1954 ukase the Presidium, Supreme Soviet USSR, Confirmed Proposal of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SSR, changi Proskurov Railway Station of the Southwestern Railway Y System to the name to Khmel'nirskaya Type By ukases ttlem tof Chithe Presidium, Supreme Soviet Ukrainian SSR, Chigirin City- a city S of dinat on Rayon, Cherka si ya Oblast, has been designated rayon Settlement Soviet , and the settlement of Mine No 30/35 of Almazov- ignated a emeo , Roven kovskiy Rayon, Voroshilovgradskaya, Y-type settlement and named Mikhaylovka k Oblast, in des- skiy des- and Prishchepino of Almazovskiy Settlement Soviet are aries of Mikhaylovka C{ Vengerova. Karshio, -ty-Type Settlement.(7.4)-ncluded within the bound- By a 26 December 1953 ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet Uzbek Populated pointtpef eShabba ttlementSha bazskiy Rsyo nated a cit a, Kara-KalpakskaYa SSR, ASSR, is desig- 1? Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 11 Mar 54 2. Moscow, Vedomosti Verkbovnogo Soveta SSSR, 23 Apr 54 3? Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 12 Jan 54 4. Tbilisi, Zarya V?stoka, 7 Apr 54 5. Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR, 20 Jan 54 6. Ibid., 18 Feb 54 7. Ibid., 9 Mar 54 8? Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 4 Mar St, 9? Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 8 Jan 54 10. Ibid., 12 Jan 54 11. Ibid., 7 Jan 54 12. Ibid., 21 Feb 54 13. Vedomosti Verkhovrogo Soveta SSSR, 10 Apr 54 14. Pravda Ukrainy, 15 Apr 54 -7- C-O-N-I-D-E-N-TI-A-L Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200114-1