Monchegorsky District
Monchegorsky District (Russian: Мончего́рский райо́н) was an administrative division (a district) of Murmansk Okrug of Leningrad Oblast, and later of Murmansk Oblast of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, which existed in 1938–1949.
History
[edit]The work settlement of Monchegorsk in the 1930s was the center of copper and nickel mining in the Monchetundra Massif of the Kola Peninsula, and was administratively a part of Kirovsky District of Murmansk Okrug.[1] By 1937, the copper-nickel mining volume increased significantly, and, consequently, the area's population grew as well.[2] On February 19, 1937 the Presidium of the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee petitioned to create a new Monchegorsky District by separating the town and its surrounding area from Kirovsky District and to grant Monchegorsk town status.[2] While town status was granted to Monchegorsk by the VTsIK Resolution of September 20, 1937, no new district was formed.[2] On October 10, 1937, Monchegorsk town council was subordinated directly to the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee.[2]
On December 21, 1937, the Presidium of the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee again petitioned to create a new district with the administrative center in Monchegorsk.[2] In a letter to the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee and the VTsIK, the Presidium noted that Kirovsky District has two developed but unrelated industrial centers—Kirovsk and Monchegorsk—with the latter having a larger population and being located 111 kilometers (69 mi) away from the former.[2] The petition was again unsuccessful—when on February 10, 1938 the VTsIK adopted a new Resolution changing the administrative-territorial structure of Leningrad Oblast (of which Murmansk Okrug was a part), Monchegorsk remained a part of Kirovsky District.[2]
On May 16, 1938, the VTsIK finally issued a Resolution to create Monchegorsky District in Murmansk Okrug of Leningrad Oblast on the territory of the town of Monchegorsky and Imandrovsky Selsoviet.[2] However, since Murmansk Okrug itself was abolished only a few days later on May 27, 1938, the district had not been formed and even the Resolution itself had not been published.[2]
Monchegorsky District was eventually formed by the VTsIK Resolution of December 27, 1938, after the creation of Murmansk Oblast.[2] It existed until December 9, 1949, when by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union Monchegorsk was elevated in status to that of a town under oblast jurisdiction, with the former district's territory passing into its subordination.[2]
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[edit]- Архивный отдел Администрации Мурманской области. Государственный Архив Мурманской области. (1995). Административно-территориальное деление Мурманской области (1920-1993 гг.). Справочник. Мурманск: Мурманское издательско-полиграфическое предприятие "Север".