May 27, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of signing of the Decree “On the Autonomous Tatar Socialist Soviet Republic”
Today, May 27, marks the 100th anniversary of signing of the Decree “On the Autonomous Tatar Socialist Soviet Republic” - a document establishing the Autonomous Tatar Socialist Soviet Republic as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The signatures for this document were put by the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR Vladimir Lenin and the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Mikhail Kalinin.
The first government of the republic was the Council of People's Commissars of the Autonomous Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic, and its Leader was the 26-year-old Sakhibgarey Said-Galiyev, a revolutionary and politician. Initially, the ATSSR was divided into 10 cantons: Arskiy, Bugulminskiy, Buinskiy, Laishevskiy, Mamadyshskiy, Menzelinskiy, Sviyazhskiy, Spasskiy, Tetyushskiy and Chistopolskiy. In 1921, the Agryzskiy, Elabuzhskiy, and Chelninskiy cantons were created.
The process of establishing a new republic turned out to be much more complicated than contemporaries assumed. At that time, the ATSSR experienced emigration and the loss of part of the national intelligentsia, famine and collectivization. Severe trials fell on it during the years of World War II. About 700 thousand natives of the republic participated in battles on all fronts of the war.
Today, the Republic of Tatarstan is one of the most economically developed regions of Russia. The Republic is located in the center of a large industrial region of the Russian Federation, at the intersection of major highways connecting the east and west, north and south of the country. Tatarstan has rich natural resources, a powerful and diversified industry, high intellectual potential and a huge number of highly qualified specialists.
Happy birthday, our native Tatarstan! We sincerely wish the republic prosperity, peace and harmony, and all its inhabitants - good health, kindness and prosperity!