Order No. 1 of the Commissariat of Agriculture of the Byelorussian Soviet Republic

On December 30-31, 1918, the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belarus was created at the VI Conference of organizations of the RCP (b) of the Western Region, held in Smolensk.

On the night of December 30-31, 1918 in Smolensk, the Manifesto on the formation of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Belarus (SSRB) was promulgated. The newly formed republic included Vitebsk, Grodno, Mogilev, Minsk and Smolensk provinces.

In connection with the creation of the SSRB, the Regional Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies of the Western Commune (abbreviated Oblispkomzap) was liquidated, and the departments, institutions and organizations subordinate to it were abolished.

In the institution «State Archive of the Mogilev Region» in the archival fund of the Bykhov district land department under the Bykhov district executive committee of the Soviets of Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Deputies, a copy of the order of the Commissariat of Agriculture of the Belarusian Soviet Republic No. 1 dated January 4, 1919 has been preserved.

In accordance with this order, the Mogilev provincial and district land departments came under the control of the Commissariat of Agriculture of the Byelorussian Soviet Republic.