The regional Soviets’ congresses of Siberia role in the intensification of the Siberian region (1925-1930): a retrospective review

The process of reforming the regional level of power in modern Russia should in essence be based on the existing Soviet experience, which can be creatively rethought in order to avoid the extremes that accompanied the early stage of the formation of the regional government system. In this regard, it is of particular interest to study the experience of the Siberian authorities in the second half of the 1920s, when the NEP policy began to bear fruit. With the end of the Civil War in Siberia, the restructuring of the regional level of the Soviet system of government began. The leading direction in these transformations was the process of creating new territorial units. Siberian zoning led to the creation in the second half of the 20s of the XX century district bodies of Soviet power. The subject of the study is the organization and activities of one of the most important regional bodies of Soviet power in Siberia - the regional Congress of Soviets of Siberia, which began its work in 1925 and laid the foundation for the formation of a new administrative unit in the USSR - the Siberian Region. Interest in this problem isdictated by the fact that, despite the great importance of this five-year period in the life of the USSR, at the regional level there are still a number of little-studied problems that make it possible to look at the events from a different angle. Most of the authors who study the first decade of the existence of Soviet power do not consider it necessary to dwell on the Siberian regional level, limiting themselves to the characteristics of local government in the central regions of the state. Particular attention is paid to the verbatim records of the meetings of the three regional congresses of the Soviets of Siberia, as the most complete sources of that time. Information is given about the issues raised at the congress and the change in the approaches of the central authorities of the USSR in the context of unfolding collectivization and industrialization. The logical result of the complication and intensification of the socio-economic development of the Siberian Region was its division in 1930 into the West Siberian and East Siberian Regions.