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Gorno–Altai Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Soviet political committee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ16980836 ↗
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The Gorno–Altai Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, commonly referred to as the Gorno–Altai CPSU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Oyrot AO (1922–1948), Gorno-Altai AO (1948–1990), Gorno-Altai ASSR (1990–1991) and the Gorno-Altai SSR (1990–1991) in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created on June 1, 1922, and abolished on August 23, 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Politburo or the General Secretary himself.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gorno–Altai Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.