Continuity of State Awards of the Republic of Tuva after its Incorporation into the USSR

Abstract

Introduction: The article is devoted to the issue of the continuity of the legal regime of awards of the Tuvan People’s Republic in the conditions of the TNR’s entry into the USSR in 1944.Methodology and materials: The article is based on the sources and literature of the USSR, the TNR and the Tuvan ASSR: normative acts, archival documents, lists and personal files of those awarded state awards, certificates of awarding state awards, scientific literature on state awards of the USSR and the Republic of Tuva, as well as persons awarded state awards of the Republic of Tuva. Formal-dogmatic, comparative-legal, systemic-structural and historical research methods are used to consider the issue.The results of the study: The article outlines the normative legal acts and documents pertaining to state awards, enabling the identification of issues related to the succession of the Republic of Tuva’s state awards to those of the USSR, particularly in the context of the Republic of Tuva’s integration into the USSR. It also includes references to the Republic of Tuva’s state awards within the USSR’s normative legal acts and documents concerning individuals who received USSR state awards, and it establishes a correlation between TNR state awards and USSR state awards.Conclusions: Results refute the conclusion previously made by the researchers about the equating of the Republic of Tuva state awards to separate USSR state awards was refuted. This thesis is not supported by both the legal acts of the USSR on the succession of state awards, as well as other normative legal acts of the USSR, as well as documents issued by the governing bodies of the Tuva Autonomous Region of the RSFSR to persons who had previously been awarded state awards of the Republic of Tuva.