Mogilev region – 85 years!

On January 15, 2023, the Mogilev region celebrates its anniversary. It was on this day 85 years ago, at the afternoon session of the first session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation, amendments to Article 29 of the Constitution of the USSR of 1936 were adopted.

If earlier this article stated that “the Armenian SSR, the Byelorussian SSR, the Turkmen SSR and the Kirghiz SSR do not include autonomous republics, as well as territories and regions.”
Then, at the suggestion of the Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR, deputy from the Kanash district of the Chuvash ASSR Alexander Fedorovich Gorkin (1897-1988), it was proposed to state Article 29 of the Constitution of the USSR in the following edition: “The Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic consists of regions: Vitebsk, Gomel, Minsk, Mogilev and Polesskaya”.

This proposal was supported by the deputies and approved by a separate resolution.

In accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR “On the administrative-territorial division of the Minsk, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel and Polesye regions” dated February 20, 1938, the Mogilev region (with the center in Mogilev) included the districts: Belynichi, Berezinsky, Bobruisk , Bykhovsky, Goretsky, Dribinsky, Kirovsky, Klimovichsky, Klichevsky, Kostyukovichsky, Krasnopolsky, Krichevsky, Kruglyansky, Mogilevsky, Mstislavsky, Osipovichsky, Propoysky, Khotimsky, Chaussky, Cherikovsky and Shklovsky.