Far Eastern Krai

Far Eastern Krai or Far Eastern Territory was an administrative subdivision of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic of the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1938. Its capital was Khabarovsk.

Far Eastern Krai in 1938

The term may also informally refer to Russian Far East.

History

After the abolition of the buffer state of Far Eastern Republic in 1922 the Far Eastern Oblast was established with capital Chita (since 1924 the capital was Khabarovsk), which included the lands of FER and Amurskaya, Transbaikalskaya, Kamchatskaya, Priamurskaya, Primorskaya (with northern part of Sakhalin island) guberniyas (provinces). It also had right of way by the Chinese Eastern Railway. [1] Geographically, it was an easternmost area of Asian Russia, bounded by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean (Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan), and by China.

In 1926 the Far Eastern Oblast was reorganized into the Far Eastern Krai with Amurski, Vladivostokski, Zeiski, Kamchatski, Nikolaevski, Sakhalinski, Sretenski, Khabarovski, Chitinski Okrugs.[1]

On October 20, 1938 the Far Eastern Krai was divided into the Khabarovsk Krai (bigger portion) and Primorski Krai (smaller portion including Primorski and Ussuriski oblasts as well as Kalininsky and Krasnoarmeysky Districts from Khabarovsk Oblast).[1]

References
  1. A brief history of the Khabarovsk Krai Archived 2009-05-29 at the Wayback Machine, a webpage of the Ministry of Economic Development and Foreign Relations of Khabarovsk Krai

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