Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Republics (TsIK USSR), Decree on the Delimitation of Soviet Republics in Central Asia and on the Entrance of the Uzbek and Turkmen Republics into the USSR. October 27, 1925

Original Source: Sistematicheskoe sobranie deistvuiushchikh zakonov Soiuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Moscow: [Kontora "Sobraniia zakovov SSR], 1926), pp. 206-207.

Having heard:

(1) the decision of the fifth all-Bukhara kurtultai and of the central executive committee of the Khorezm People's Republic which expressed the will of the population of Bukhara and Khorezm to unite with their kinsmen residing in the Turkestan ASSR, and on entrance of the newly formed states, on the principles of the agreement, as union republics into the USSR; and

(2) the decision of the central executive committee of the Turkestan ASSR and the VTsIK on the division of the Turkestan ASSR, on the principles of self-determination by nationalities, into the republics: UzSSR with the Autonomous Tadzhik SSR, TurkSSR, Kara-Kirghiz autonomous region included in the RSFSR, and on the attachment of the Kirghiz part of Turkestan to the Kirghiz ASSR included in the RSFSR

the TsIK of the USSR confirms that the free expression of the will of toiling peoples is the supreme law and charges the presidium of the TsIK of the USSR to carry out the formation of the newly-proposed republics in Central Asia in conformity with the decisions of the congresses of Soviets thereof.

Source: Walter Russell Batsell, Soviet Rule in Russia (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), Chapter VI.