PRIMORSKIY
RUSSIAN PRIMORSKIY (MARITIME) KRAY
The Russian Primorskiy (Maritime) Kray was formed in 1938, out of the southeastern coastal area of the defunct Kray of the Far East. _________________________________________________________________________________CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Chairmen of the Executive Committee of the Primorskiy Kray 1938 - 1939 S. I. Shabalin 1939 - 1939 I. A. Fomichev 1939 - 1943 B. K. Chubarov 1943 - 1947 A. F. Blochanenko _________________________________________________________________________________PARTY LEADERS
First Secretary of the Primorskiy Kray Committee (Kraykom) of the All-Union Communist Party 1938 - 1947 Nikolay Mikhaylovich Pegov 1905 - 1991 _________________________________________________________________________________HEADS OF THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS OF THE PRIMORSKIY KRAY
The new Kray encompassed the : - area of the former Primoskiy Oblast - Ussuri Oblast. (See here for minor minority areas in the Kray) PRIMORSKIY OBLAST A Primorskiy Oblast was established in 1856 by the merger into one unit of : - occupied Chinese territories, part of which later became the new Amur Oblast - the Oblast of Kamchatka (until 1909). - Sakhalin Island (until 1884 - also including the central and northern Kuril Islands until 1875 when they were ceded to Japan). The territorial formation of the Oblast ended in 1888 when the Military Government of Vladivostok - detached since 1880 - was reunited with Primorskiy. (1) Primorskiy was part of the Government General of East Siberia until 1884 and then of the Government General of the Amur. Military Governors of the Primorskiy Oblast (also Atamans of the Ussuri Cossack Host since 1889) 1856 - 1865 CAdm. Pyotr Vasilyevich Kazakevich last Military Governor of Kamcharka 1814 - 1887 1865 - 1871 CAdm. Johann Hampus (Ivan Vasilyevich) von Furuhjelm 1821 - 1909 1871 - 1875 CAdm. Alexander (Yegorovich) Crown (Kraun) 1823 - 1900 1875 - 1880 CAdm. Gustav Wilhelm (Gustav Feodorovich) Erdmann 1818 - 1889 1880 - 1881 CAdm. Mikhail Pavlovich Tikhmenev 1834 - 1890 1881 - 1888 CAdm. Iosif Gavrilovich Baranov 1835 - 1888 - 1897 LtGen. Pavel (Fedorovich) Unterberger 1842 - 1921 1897 - 1898 Dean Ivanovich Subotich 1852 - 1899 - 1903 MajGen. Nikolai Mikhaylovich Chichagov 1852 - 1911 1903 - 1905 MajGen. Aleksey Mikhaylovich Kolyubakin 1851 - 1917 1905 - 1909 LtGen. Vasiliy Yegorovich Pflug 1860 - 1955 1910 - 1911 MajGen. I. N. Svechin 1911 - 1914 MajGen. Mikhail Mikhaylovich Manakin 1862 - 1914 - 1916 MajGen. Arseni Dmitriyevich Stashevskiy 1851 - 1916 1916 - 1917 MajGen. Vladimir Alexandrovich Tolmachev 1853 - After the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1917 the Primorskiy region - with the two towns of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok as major centers - became a battlefield between the Bolsheviks and their White and Allied opponents (see here for more on this). After the Red victory, Primorskiy became part of the Far Eastern Republic (1920 - 1922) and then of the Russian Kray of the Far Esat (1922 - 1938). Within this administrative unit it first was a province (1923 -1926) then an Okrug (1926 - 1932) and finally again an Oblast, that was however later divided into 4 parts : - the Oblasti of Khabarovsk and of the Lower-Amur, that were to become part of the Khabarovsk Kray in 1938, - the Oblasti of Primorskiy and of the Ussuri, forming the Primorskiy Kray in 1938. Chairmen of the Executive Committee of the Primorskiy Oblast 1932 - 1934 Mikhail Petrovich Volsky 1897 - 1938 1934 - 1937 I. G. Petrov 1937 - 1938 ... First Secretaries of the Primorskiy Oblast Committee of the All-Union Communist Party 1932 - 1934 ... 1934 - 1937 Pavel Mikhaylvich Tanygin 1... - 1938 (1) Military Governors of Vladivostok 1880 - 1888 1880 - 1886 CAdm. Aleksandr Vasilyevich Feldhausen 1832 - 1907 1886 - 1887 Adm. Fredrik (Fedor Petrovich) af Enehielm 1838 - 1897 1887 - 1888 Adm. Platon Ivanovich Yermolayev 1832 - 1901 USSURI OBLAST As mentioned above a separate Ussuri Oblast was established in 1934. It was reunited with Primorskiy in 1943. (Leadership remains to be added)
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