The Argayash National Okrug (russian: Аргая́шский национа́льный о́круг '; ba, Арғаяш милли округы ''Arğayaş milli okrugı''; Bashkir ) was a national ''okrug'' for the Bashkirs of the

Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...

of the

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. It existed from January to November 1934.

History

On 15 November 1917, Trans-Ural Bashkiria was added to the nascent

Bashkurdistan The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик� ...

by decision of the Bashkir Central

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

as Argayash Canton. Although an

exclave An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...

surrounded by the RSFSR proper, this canton existed as an administrative and territorial unit of the

Bashkir Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( ba, Башҡорт Автономиялы Совет Социалистик Республикаhы; russian: Башкирская Автономная Советская Социалистиче� ...

until 1930. In that year, the cantonal system of administration was eliminated and the former Argayash Canton was organized as two ''

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

s'',

Argayash Argayash (russian: Аргаяш) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Argayashsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Population: Between 1930 and 1934 Argayash served as the administrative center of Argayash Nationa ...

and Kunashak, while remaining a part of the Bashkir ASSR. On 17 January 1934, the

Ural Oblast The Ural Oblast (russian: Уральская область) was an oblast of the RSFSR within the USSR. It was created November 3, 1923 by the merger of Perm, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Tyumen Governorates. The capital of the oblast was Sv ...

of the RSFSR which surrounded the former Argayash Canton was disbanded by the

All-Russian Central Executive Committee The All-Russian Central Executive Committee ( rus, Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет, Vserossiysky Centralny Ispolnitelny Komitet, VTsIK) was the highest legislative, administrative and r ...

and divided into three new ''oblasts'', one of which was Chelyabinsk Oblast. On the same day, the area was transferred to this new ''oblast'' as the Argayash National Okrug. Later that year, on 17 November 1934, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee liquidated the national ''okrug'' and the area was thenceforth administered as a normal part of Chelyabinsk Oblast. There was some popular interest in reviving the ''okrug'' in the Argayash and Kunashak areas of the ''oblast'' in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but no official action was taken and the area remains a part of Chelyabinsk Oblast, now a part of the Russian Federation.

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References

{{reflist Autonomous okrugs of the Soviet Union States and territories established in 1934 1934 establishments in Russia States and territories disestablished in 1934 History of Bashkortostan Chelyabinsk Oblast 1934 establishments in the Soviet Union