12th All Russian Congress

Twelfth All-Russian Congress of Soviet. May 7-16, 1925

Verbatim report of the All-Russian XII Congress of Soviets, held on May 7-16, 1925 in Moscow. A new Constitution of the RSFSR was adopted at the congress.

According to the credentials committee of the congress: There were 1,084 voting delegates and 550 deliberative delegates. The party composition of the delegates: members and candidate members of the CPSU (b) - 79.1%, non-party members - 20.9%.

Social composition of delegates: workers 39.2%, peasants 31.2%, other 29.6%

National composition: Great Russians 71.6%, Ukrainians 3.2%, Belarusians 0.9%, Caucasian peoples 2.5%, Turkic peoples 7.2%, Jews 5.0%, Latvians, and Estonians 2.9%, other 6.7%

M.I. Kalinin was elected chairman of the congress.

Issues considered;

Report of the People's Commissariat of Health (Semashko)

Report of the People's Commissariat of Finance (Milyutin)

Report of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture (Svidersky)

Report on amendments to the Constitution of the RSFSR in 1918 (Kurski)

Report on the secession of the Turkestan Autonomous Republic from the RSFSR and the formation of the Turkmen and Uzbek union republics (Kiselev)

Election of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee

The congress approved the text of the 1925 Constitution of the RSFSR.

The congress elected a new composition of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in the amount of 300 members and 134 candidates.