Абай атындағы ҚазҰПУ-нің ХАБАРШЫСЫ, «Тарих және саяси-әлеуметтік ғылымдар» сериясы, №1(72), 2022 ж.
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The Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR was both a legislative, administrative and executive
body within the competence of the rights granted to it.
On October 12, 1920, the Central Executive Committee (hereinafter CEC of the KazASSR) was elected by
the Constituent Congress of the Soviets of the Kyrgyz (
Kazakh - A.N., D.U.) ASSR, which in turn formed the
Council of People’s Commissars of the Republic (hereinafter -
CPC of KazASSR). The first act that determined
the legal status of the Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR was the “Regulations on the power
organization”. This small Regulations, which is extremely capacious in the meaning and number of legal norms
contained in it, determined the status of the government [1]. It established the procedure for the formation of the
Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR, its structure and personal composition. The government was
created as a body
for general administration, and the people’s commissariats were the sectoral administrative
apparatus. The government was entrusted with the management of the republic on the basis of the legislation of
the USSR and the RSFSR, resolutions of the congresses of the Soviets of Kazakhstan, the Central Executive
Committee of the KazASSR and its Presidium, to which the CPC of KazASSR was accountable [2].
The first membership of the Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR included the following
persons: V.A. Radus-Zenkovich was appointed as the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the
Kyrgyz (
Kazakh - A.N., D.U.) ASSR, People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) headed by
M.Murzagaliyev; People’s Commissariat of Justice (NKJ) - G.A. Alibekov; People’s Commissariat of Education
(Narkompros) - A. Baitursynov; People’s Commissariat of Health (Narkomzdrav) - M.S. Shamov; People’s
Commissariat of Social Security (NKSO) - S.D. Argancheyev; People’s
Commissariat of Agriculture
(Narkomzem) - V.N. Kharlov; People’s Commissariat of Food (NKprod) - I.D. Martynov; People’s
Commissariat of Finance (NKfin) - N.G. Kalashnikov; People’s Commissariat of the Workers’ and Peasants’
Inspection (NKRKI) - N.I. Balandin; People’s Commissariat of National Economy - M.N. Pokrovsky; People’s
Commissariat of Labor (NKtrud) - I.M. Zaromsky; People’s Commissariat of Communication Lines (NKomput) -
A. Korostelyov; People’s Commissariat Military - A.D. Avdeyev [3].
According to the Regulation, the chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars,
as the head of
government, was entrusted with the leadership of the CPC of the republic. Therefore, the chairman of the Council
of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR represented the government of the republic in its relations with all state
institutions, took the necessary measures on behalf of the Council of People’s Commissars, gave orders in the
order of management and received reports from the people’s commissars, chairmen of institutions and
commissions under the Council of People’s Commissars. He also reported on the activities of the Council of
People’s Commissars to the Central Executive Committee and the Congress of Soviets of the KazASSR [4].
The Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR was also a collective body of the republic. At its
meetings, which were an important type
of the activities of this body, the most important issues of the state,
economic and cultural life of the republic were comprehensively discussed and settled. Meetings of the Council of
People’s Commissars took place both in regular and in an extraordinary procedure [5].
In 1920, the working machinery of the Council of People’s Commissars consisted of a secretariat and a
general office with the CEC. In accordance with the order No. 1 of the Council of People’s Commissars dated
March 1, 1925, the machinery of the Council of People’s Commissars and the Central Executive Committee had
other general departments, such as: management of affairs, financial part, machine bureau, as well as expeditions
[6].
In 1926-1927 the machinery of the Council of People’s Commissars separated from the office of the Central
Executive Committee, only 7 people from a general department remained in it, 5
people in the financial and
economic part; chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars – 1 person; deputy chairman of the Council of
People’s Commissars and Chairman of the State Planning Commission - 1, in total - 21 employees [7].
In 1930-1931 instructors, consultants were included in the machinery of the Council of People’s Commissars,
and a secret part was allocated. Since 1931, the administration of the Council of People’s Commissars began to
exist independently. In 1933, the economic part of the house of government and the second secretariat were
allocated separately, and by 1933 there were already 60 people in the machinery of the Council of People’s
Commissars [8]. Thus, by 1933, the machinery of the Council of People’s Commissars had grown significantly,
and this structural imaging of the machinery of the Council of People’s Commissars was due to the goal of the
leadership to achieve an operational and simple organization of the machinery.
As mentioned above, the Council of People’s Commissars, as a governing body, directed all spheres of state
life. Therefore, the significance of this body and the nature of its activity give grounds to speak of the special
value of the sources deposited in the resources of the Council of People’s Commissars. The versatile nature of the
activities of the Council of People’s Commissars was reflected in the variety of types and varieties of documents