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The Transformation of Nakhichevan-on-Don’s self-government in the 1860s
- Authors: Batiev L.V.1
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- Federal Research Center Southern Scienti ic Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 19, No 1 (2020): THE LIFE OF THE NATIONS OF THE USSR BETWEEN 1920-1950
- Pages: 155-173
- Section: HISTORY OF REGIONS OF RUSSIA
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/22990
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2020-19-1-155-173
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The author analyzes the Armenian self-government of the Nakhichevan-on-Don Armenian colony that had been established in 1779 after Armenians from Crimea were resettled to the Don region. The municipal self-government in Russia of the pre-reform period in general, and in particular the peculiar organization of the administration, police, and court in Nakhichevan-on-Don, have so far barely been studied. The present research is based on archival sources from the National archives of Armenia and on little-known publications in the Armenian language, as well as on Russian legislation of the 19th century. The main feature of the Nakhichevan system of self-government was the unifi cation of all Armenian immigrants from the Crimea - city dwellers as well as residents of fi ve Armenian villages - into one self-governing community. Based on a Charter issued by Catherine II, self-government in Nakhichevan was carried out on an ethnic basis, by Armenian immigrants from the Crimea. However, the Armenian self-government was gradually integrated into the general system of the Russian administration and court system. Several parallel processes can be discerned: 1) since the beginning of the 1850s, the expediency of the formation of a city Duma in Nakhichevan-on-Don was discussed at diff erent levels of government; 2) the magistrate was stripped of police functions in 1865; 3) in 1866 a temporary subsidiary body was established under the mayor: a council of 24 trustees and four assistants of the mayor, to be in action until a city Duma is established; 4) a six-member city Duma comes into being in 1866; 5) the magistrate was abolished in 1866 (its judicial and related functions were removed by May 1869); 6) in 1870 the economic part of the magistrate, which remained after its formal abolition, were transferred to the mayor, and the unique system of Armenian self-government in Nakhichevan ended despite the Nakhichevanis’ request to preserve the “rights and advantages” granted by Catherine II.
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Levon V. Batiev
Federal Research Center Southern Scienti ic Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Email: batiev@ssc-ras.ru
Kandidat Yuridicheskikh Nauk [PhD in Law], Leading Researcher at the Laboratory of Sociology and Law
41, Chekhov Av., Rostov-on-Don, 344006 RussiaReferences
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