16th All Russian Congress

Sixteenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets: January 15-23, 1935

Verbatim Report. Moscow: All-Russian Central Executive Committee, [1935]. - Obl., [708] p.

Verbatim report of the All-Russian XI Congress of Soviets, held on January 15-23, 1935 in Moscow. The congress discussed issues of public utilities, medicine, amendments were made to the Constitution of the RSFSR.

Resolution of the XVI All-Russian Congress of Soviets

On amendments to Articles 32, 37, 38, 40, 41, 47, 76 and 80 of the Constitution (Basic Law) of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

January 23, 1935

In connection with the publication of legislative acts of the USSR on the division of the People's Commissariat of Supply of the USSR into two independent people's commissariats - the People's Commissariat of Internal Trade of the USSR and the People's Commissariat of the Food Industry of the USSR, on the abolition of the People's Commissariats of Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection of the USSR, RSFSR and ASSR on the unification of the People's Commissariat of Labor of the USSR with the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, on the formation of the People's Commissariats of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Internal Trade of the USSR, RSFSR and ASSR, communal services of the RSFSR and ASSR and local industry of the RSFSR and ASSR, as well as on the budgets of autonomous Soviet socialist republics and organizational measures in the field of Soviet and economic construction - the XVI All-Russian Congress of Soviets decides:

To amend the following articles of the Constitution (Basic Law) of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, stating them in the following wording:

1. “32. The composition of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic includes, as its members, the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, his deputy and the people's commissars specified in Art. 37 of the Constitution (Basic Law) of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.

The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic also includes representatives of the All-Union People's Commissariats, appointed in accordance with the all-Union legislation and having the right of an advisory or decisive vote, in accordance with the decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets or its Presidium, as well as other persons by resolutions of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets ".

2. “37. The following People's Commissariats are formed for direct management of individual branches of government within the remit of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR: Agriculture, Internal Trade, Finance, Local Industry, Utilities, Justice, Education, Health, Social Security, and the State Planning Commission.

3. “38. The People's Commissariats of Agriculture, Internal Trade and Finance of the RSFSR, subordinate to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, its Presidium, and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, carry out in their activities the directives of the corresponding people's commissariats of the USSR. "

4. “40. At each people's commissariat, a Council of the People's Commissariat is formed, convened periodically with the participation of representatives of its local organizations and enterprises. "

5. “41. The People's Commissar has the right to make decisions on all issues that are subject to the jurisdiction of the relevant People's Commissariat. "

6. “47. The central executive committees of the autonomous Soviet socialist republics form their own executive bodies - the councils of people's commissars, consisting of: the chairman of the council of people's commissars, people's commissars of justice, education, health care, social security, agriculture, finance, utilities, local industry, internal trade, and the chairman of the state planning commission.

The People's Commissariats of Agriculture, Finance, Public Utilities, Local Industry, and Internal Trade, being subordinate to the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the respective Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, are obliged to fulfill the directives of the People's Commissariats of the same name of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic.

Depending on local living conditions, the central executive committees of the autonomous Soviet socialist republics have the right to reduce the number of people's commissariats and accordingly change the composition of the council of people's commissars. "

7. “76. All state revenues and all expenditures of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic are combined in the national budget. "

8. “80. The republican revenues and expenditures of the autonomous Soviet socialist republics that are part of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic are combined in the republican budgets of these republics.

The republican budgets of the autonomous Soviet socialist republics are adopted by the councils of people's commissars and approved by the central executive committees of these republics. "

Chairman of the XVI All-Russian Congress of Soviets Secretary of the XVI All-Russian Congress of Soviets

M. Kalinin A. Kiselev

Moscow Kremlin