Adaev

This article is about the administrative division of the Kazakh ASSR. For the horse, see Kazakh horse.
Subdivisions of the Kazakh ASSR, 1920–1929; Adaev on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea

Adaev was an administrative division (uyezd) of the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic,[1] corresponding in part to the Kazakh portion of the former Transcaspian Oblast, and to the present-day Mangystau Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1926, it comprised 27 volosts, with 174 villages, overwhelmingly Kazakh in ethnic composition.[2] The administrative capital of the province was Fort Alexandrovsk, on the Mangyshlak Peninsula.[1] In 1928 the territory of the republic was reorganized into 13 okrugs, of which Adaev was one; it was abolished in a further reorganization in 1929.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Adaev". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. 146.
  2. ^ a b Romeo A. Cherot, "Nativization of Government and Party Structure in Kazakhstan", The American Slavic and East European Review, 14:1 (1955), pp. 42-58.