Greek Autonomous District

45°14′N 38°00′E / 45.233°N 38.000°E / 45.233; 38.000 History 27 February 193022 February 1938

Greek Autonomous District (Russian: Греческий автономный район, romanized: Grechesky avtonomnyy rayon, Greek: Ελληνική Αυτόνομη Επαρχία, romanized: Ellēnikḗ Aftónomē Eparchía) was a national district created according to the policy national delimitation in the Soviet Union. It was established on 27 February 1930 by the decree of the Azov-Black Sea Krai ispolkom, with the capital in stanitsa Krymskaya (now the town of Krymsk). In 1932 the capital was moved to stanitsa Nizhne-Bakanskaya. It was the only one district of republican subordination (i.e., subordinated directly to a Soviet republic, rather than to an intermediate-level administrative entity). This Greek autonomy in the Soviet Union existed until 6 March 1939, when it was disbanded and the administrative entity renamed to Krymsky District by the decree of Krasnodar Krai kraikom of the All-Russian Communist Party,^[1] by the end of the first wave of the Soviet repression against ethnic Greeks.

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