Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (initially Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic) (April 30, 1918 – October 27, 1924) was created from the Turkestan Krai of Imperial Russia. Its capital was Tashkent

Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

, population about 5,000,000.

Date	Name

}30 Apr 1918 || Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Republic (constitution adopted 15 Oct 1918)
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| 24 Sep 1920 || Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
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| 30 Dec 1922 || Turkestan A.S.S.R. part of Soviet Union (within Russian S.F.S.R.)
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| 27 Oct 1924 || Dissolved
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Upon dissolution, it was split into Turkmen SSR

Turkmen SSR

The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Turkmen SSR for short, was one of republics of the Soviet Union in Central Asia. It was initially established on 7 August 1921 as the Turkmen Oblast of the Turkestan ASSR. On 13 May 1925 it was transformed into Turkmen SSR and became a...

 (now Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

), Uzbek SSR

Uzbek SSR

The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Uzbek SSR for short, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union since its creation in 1924...

 (now Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

) with the Tajik ASSR

Tajik ASSR

The Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic within the Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union. It was created in October 1924 by a series of legal acts that partitioned the three existing regional entities in Central Asia – Turkestan ASSR, Bukharan People's Soviet Republic,...

 (now Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

), Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (now Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

), and Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast

Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast

Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast was created on February 19, 1925 by separating lands of the ethnic Karakalpaks from the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and Khorezm People's Soviet Republic....

 (now Karakalpakstan).

Turksovnarkom

Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars ("Turksovnarkom")

Initial Date	Final Date	Name
15 Nov 1917	30 Apr 1918	Fyodor Ivanovich Kolesov
30 Apr 1918	Jun 1918	Pyotr Alekseyevich Kobozev
Jun 1918	5 Oct 1918	Fyodor Ivanovich Kolesov
23 Oct 1918	19 Jan 1919	Vladislav Damyanovich Figelskiy
30 Mar 1918	Mar 1920	Karp Yeliseyevich Sorokin
19 Sep 1920	1922	Kaikhaziz Sardarovich Atabayev
1922	12 Jan 1924	Turor Risqulovich Risqulov
12 Jan 1924	27 Oct 1924	Shah Ahmad Islamov