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In October 1924, when Central Asia was divided into distinct ethno-national political entities, the Transcaspian Oblast of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkestan ASSR) along with the Charjew, Kerki and a part of the Shirabad provinces of the Bukharan People's Republic and the Turkmen province of Khorezm People's Republic ...
The Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR (Turkmen: Түркменистан ССР Ёкары Советы, romanized: Türkmenistan SSR Ýokary Sowety; Russian: Верховный Совет Туркменской ССР, romanized: Verkhovnyy Sovet Turkmenskoy SSR) was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) of the Turkmen SSR, one of the union republics of the Soviet Union.
1 Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (1925–1991) Toggle Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (1925–1991) subsection 1.1 First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan
Years in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (14 C) Pages in category "Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The name of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) can be divided into two components: the ethnonym Türkmen and the Persian suffix -stan meaning "place of" or "country".The name "Turkmen" comes from Turk, plus the Sogdian suffix -men, meaning "almost Turk", in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic mythological system.
On 2 February 1920, Khiva's last Kungrad khan, Sayid Abdullah, abdicated and a short-lived Khorezm People's Soviet Republic (later the Khorezm SSR) was created out of the territory of the old Khanate of Khiva, before it was finally incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1924, with the former khanate divided between the new Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR.
In Turkmenistan, the national conservative Agzybirlik (Unification) took up the cause of independence and gained a significant base among native Turkmens. Saparmurat Niyazov—then Secretary of the Supreme Soviet—had the party banned for anti-Soviet activities, and suppressed dissent. However, in what the first multi-party election to the ...
The chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (from October 25, 1990: Republic of Turkmenistan) was the parliamentary speaker of the legislature, which was succeeded by the Majlis in 1992. From 1938 to 1990, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet was the republic's de jure head of state.