Tyumen Governorate


Tyumen Governorate is an administrative-territorial unit of the RSFSR, which existed in 1918 and 1920–1923. The provincial center is the city of Tyumen.

History

1918

The provincial conference of Soviets held in Tyumen on April 3–5, 1918, decided to rename the Tobolsk Governorate to Tyumen and move the provincial center to Tyumen. A report on this was published in the Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on April 3. The Tobolsk Soviet opposed the decision of the conference and on May 3 declared itself the provincial.
Initially, the following counties were included in the province: Beryozovsky, Ishimsky, Kurgansky, Surgutsky, Tarsky, Tobolsky, Tyukalinsky, Tyumensky and Yalutorovsky.
After the capture of Tyumen by the White Czechs in the summer of the same year, the province again became Tobolsk.

1920-1923

After the capture of Western Siberia by the Reds and the retreat of the Kolchakites, provincial institutions were established in Tyumen, but the province continued to be alternately called Tobolsk and Tyumen. Thus, in the resolution of the VTsIK of August 27, 1919, it was called Tobolsk, and in the resolution of the SNK RSFSR of March 2, 1920, it was called Tyumen. The final renaming of the province to Tyumen was confirmed by the decree of the VTsIK "On the transfer of the Chelyabinsk and Tyumen provinces with the Ishim district to the jurisdiction of the Revolutionary Council of the 1st Labor Army..." dated April 21, 1920. The province included the Berezovsky, Ishimsky, Surgutsky, Tobolsky, Turinsky, Tyumensky and Yalutorovsky districts.
The process of transferring powers from the military revolutionary committees to the Soviets was completed in 1921.
In the early 1920s, the Reds suppressed the West Siberian Uprising — the largest anti-Bolshevik armed uprising of peasants, Cossacks, some workers and urban intelligentsia in the RSFSR. During February–May 1921, the rebels controlled a number of district centers.
Abolished by the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of November 3, 1923. The territory became part of the newly formed Irbit, Ishim, Tobolsk and Tyumen districts of the Ural Region.

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