The history of the Tomsk notary in the first decade of Soviet power (1917-1927)

The research presents a historical overview of the organization and activities of the Tomsk notary in the first decade of Soviet period. The research interest to the history of the notarial system on the territory of modern Tomsk region is associated not only with the adoption of legal acts of the Soviet era, but also is determined by the specifics of the formation of Soviet power in Tomsk, socio-political and socio-economic relations in the region, and its administrative and territorial division. The purpose of the article is to identify the unique characteristics of the formation and activities of the Tomsk notary in 1917-1927. The author studied the legal acts on the organization and functioning of notarial system on a national scale, determined their implementation features on the territory of the Tomsk province and the Tomsk district, analyzed the main conditions affecting the work of the Tomsk notary bodies, studied the organizational structure of the Tomsk notary system and its jurisdiction, staff, important activities and the funding of notary offices in the region. The research is based on the unpublished documents of the State Archive of Tomsk Region, published legal and political acts as well as scientific works of Russian historians and jurists. The studied material allows us to assert that in 1917-1927 the Tomsk notary went through several organizational processes: the gradual truncation of the notarial function, the abolition of the pre-revolutionary functions of the notary, including the period of its restoration during the Government of A.V. Kolchak, the formation of a new type of notary. The author came to the conclusion that in the first decade of Soviet era the Tomsk notary was able to allocate its own specific place in state bodies and carry out activities in qualitatively new state level. However, despite The Regulations on State Notary of the RSFSR in 1922, 1923, 1926 the organizational, structural and jurisdiction of the state notary bodies were definitely not specified. In the first decade of Soviet power, such problems as frequent turnover of notaries, weak material base, and low financing were identified in the work of the Tomsk notary. At the same time, the activity of Tomsk notaries was a "profitable business" for the region. The formation and development of the Tomsk state notary was affected by remaining civil turnovers and goods-money relations, the professional competence of Tomsk notaries, as well as the profitability state notaries in the region. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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