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16-September-2008 16:15:13 - Abrene district The Abrene district Latvian: Abrenes apriņķis was an administrative district in the Republic of Latvia with an area of 4292 square kilometers, formed in 1925 from the northern part of the Ludza district and the western part of the Ostrov region as the Jaunlatgale New Latgale district, but this was renamed Abrene in 1938. The district included the towns of Balvi and Abrene and 14 villages, and the civil parishes Latvian: pagasti comprising the district were reorganized thrice there were 12 in 1929, 13 in 1935, and 15 in 1940. 6 eastern civil parishes - Purvmalas, Linavas, KacÄ“nu, Upmalas, Gauru and AugÅ¡pils, as well as the town of Abrene a total area of 1293.6 square kilometers with 35,524 inhabitants - were joined to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1944. This part of the former Abrene district is now part of Russia as the Pytalovo District of Pskov Oblast, bordering Latvia. Abrene region in current usage very often treats the area joined to Russia as though it had comprised the entire district, which can be misleading; nearly three-quarters of the former district are in Latvia, but many treatments of the transfer of the eastern pagasti cite interbellum demographic statistics for the whole of the region, rather than by civil parish. Contents 1 History 2 The Border Agreement 3 See also 4 References History The Abrene region was long a point of contact and friction between the Finno-Ugric, Baltic, and Slavic languages, cultures, tribes, and countries. The Russian name for the town and region, Pytalovo, probably derives from the Finno-Ugric tulva, tributary, flood; the region was part of Tolowa or Tholowa; Latvian: TÄ?lava, a kingdom of the northern Latgalians, which for a period paid tribute to Mstislav the Brave of Smolensk from ca. 1180; the area became part of Livonia in 1224. In 1270s the area became a part of Livonia. The Balts east of a slight ridge at Viļaka were gradually Russified from the 15-16th centuries, but the philologists August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein and KÄ?rlis MÄ«lenbahs, conducting linguistic field research in the area in the late 19th and early 20th century, found that many people, called Russian Latvians by the local Russians, still spoke the High Latvian dialect. After the Bolsheviks were driven from what is now Latvia and Soviet Russia recognized Latvia's independence, in August 1920, it proved impossible to draw the border precisely along ethnographic lines because of the multicultural character of the borderlands; once the frontier was negotiated the border was not finalized until April 7th, 1923, large communities of Latvians were left on the Russian side and large Russian and Belarusian communities were left on the Latvian side. Strategic concerns also played a part, because of an important railway junction within the Abrene region. The historian Edgars Andersons explains in Latvijas vÄ“sture 1914-1920 Stockholm: Daugava, 1976: Especially in the north, the Russians had agreed to the Latvians' strategic demands, not complaining about the ethnographic principle having been disregarded. Several civil parishes were completely Russian. The population of the entire district in the census of 1935, divided by ethnicity, was as follows: 60,145 Latvians, 45,885 Russians, 1,558 Jews and 648 Belarusians. The demographics differed sharply on either side of the Viļaka ridge, which bisects the district -- the eastern civil parishes had small ethnic Latvian minorities: 17% in KacÄ“nu pagasts, 5% in Linavas pagasts, 32% in Purvmalas pagasts, 5% in AugÅ¡pils pagasts, and 4% in Gauru pagasts. The civil parishes immediately to the west had strong Latvian majorities, ranging from 71% in Å Ä·ilbÄ“nu pagasts to 91% in Viļakas pagasts. The town of Abrene itself, which developed around the Pytalovo railroad station, had 1,242 inhabitants, 484 of them ethnic Latvians. The inhabitants held Latvian citizenship regardless of ethnicity. Parliamentary Latvia pursued a liberal policy of multiculturalism, guaranteeing education in minority languages from 1919. Modern schools providing bilingual instruction in Latvian, Russian, Belarusian, Yiddish and Latgalian were constructed by 1936 there were 162 primary schools and 3 secondary schools in the district. The Latvianization policies of the authoritarian president KÄ?rlis Ulmanis resulted in curtailing multiculturalism after 1934. Many minority schools were closed. The Abrene district as a whole differed from most of Latvia by religion, too -- it was 48% Orthodox, 38% Catholic, and 12% Lutheran. With the Soviet occupation in 1940, the German invasion in 1941, the Holocaust, the return of Soviet forces in 1944, and the illegal mobilization of Latvian citizens by both occupying powers, severe demographic changes took place. The transfer of the eastern part of the district to the RSFSR was decided by a decree from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, based on a request by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR, in violation of even Soviet law the 1936 constitution then in force required that changes in internal borders be confirmed by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, not the Presidium. Though the official documents transfer 1075.31 square kilometers, 1293.6 square kilometers were actually transferred. The transfer was not formally finalized until 1946. The territory was subjected to forcible collectivization, accompanied by rampant robbery and destruction, including the demolition of farmsteads and mass mortality among livestock. Kulaks, nationalists, and bandits often those accused of being Forest Brothers were deported with their families 2728 persons in early 1949 and 1563 persons in May 1950, primarily to Krasnoyarsk. Officials from Russia proper replaced local administrators even at the village level, and even some who had fought for the Soviets were mistreated. In these circumstances, large numbers of people left for the Latvian SSR. Today there are substantial communities of former residents and their descendants in Balvi and RÄ«ga. The former civil parishes joined to Russia are almost totally delatvianized. The Border Agreement The Latvian constitution stipulates that the borders of the Republic are set by international treaties, and the government considers the 1920 Treaty of RÄ«ga to be still in force. The May 4th, 1990 declaration of independence reinstating the 1920 constitution subject to a transitional period by the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR affirmed that the restored Republic of Latvia would base its relations with the Russian Federation on the treaty principle. In January 1991 Latvia and Russian Federation while still in the USSR signed a document regulating their bilateral relations. The Latvian delegation attempted to include a reference to the 1920 treaty, but the Russian delegation objected. In essence, Russia views Latvia as a newly independent country and consistently refuses to acknowledge that Latvia was occupied and illegally incorporated into the USSR, while Latvia insists upon the legal continuity of Latvian state occupied in 1940. Key-players in post-war politics in the West never recognized or at least asked the legality of the incorporation of Latvia into the USSR, but there is pressure on both countries to resolve the issue. This can be seen on the example of their attitude towards events of beginning 1990-s in Latvia. Thus, the European Community, for example, did not use the term recognition but referred to the restoration of sovereignty and independence when restoring diplomatic relations in 1991; the US to the culmination of the United States' 52 year refusal to accept the forcible incorporation of the independent Baltic States by the USSR. See, for example, Roland Rich's paper for the Symposium on Recent Developments in State Recognition.. Pressure on the RF includes the need for Russia to have a border agreement in order to pursue a less draconian visa policy from the EU. The Latvian Foreign Ministry has reiterated that Latvia has no territorial claims to the Russian Federation, however, and though there is some opposition particularly among right wing parties to formally ceding the Abrene region, surveys show that most Latvians don't believe that the transferred territory will ever again be administered by Latvia. Many in Latvia -- especially the former residents of the areas now in Russia -- are interested in seeking compensation from the Russian Federation, though. Currently, the Republic of Latvia compensates those who lost property. The former residents also complain of the difficulty of visiting their family graves, asking that the Latvian and Russian governments facilitate border procedures. Despite Latvia's assurances that it makes no territorial claims, Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed that Latvian wishes to get control of the area and that such claims are against the spirit of Europe. On April 29, 2005, Latvia announced that it would sign an interpretative declaration in conjunction with the proposed border agreement with Russia, noting that the border agreement would in no way affect the legal rights of the Latvian state and its citizens under the 1920 treaty. As a consequence, Russia scrapped the border agreement, as it saw this as attempt to prolong debate on Abrene. In January 2007, Latvian Parliament agreed to sign the treaty, making no open references to the 1920 treaty.1 See also Territories detached from the Baltic States by the Soviet Union Augusts Vilis Abakuks - deputy municipal head of Abrene District during World War II References Arnolds Spekke: Balts and Slavs: Their Early Relations. Washington, D.C.: Alpha Printing Co., 1965. Arveds Å vÄ?be, ed.: Latvju enciklopÄ“dija. Stockholm: TrÄ«s Zvaigznes, 1952-1953. KÄ?rlis StalÅ¡Ä?ns: Krievu ekspansija un rusifikÄ?cija BaltijÄ? laikmetu tecÄ“jumÄ?. Chicago: JÄ?ņa Å Ä·irmanta ApgÄ?ds, 1966. KÄ?rlis StalÅ¡Ä?ns: LatvieÅ¡u un lietuvieÅ¡u austrumu apgabalu likteņi. Chicago: JÄ?ņa Å Ä·irmanta apgÄ?ds, 1958. Albert N. Tarulis: Soviet Policy Toward the Baltic States 1918-1940. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1959. Dietrich Loeber, The Russian-Latvian Territorial Dispute Over Abrene in The Parker School Journal of East European Law 1995, Vol. 2, pp. 537-559. Available in German in Acta Baltica 1996, Vol. 34, pp. 9-28, and in Latvian as Krievijas un Latvijas teritoriÄ?lais strÄ«ds Abrenes jautÄ?jumÄ?. Retrieved 3. XII. 2005. Edgars Andersons: Latvijas vÄ“sture 1914-1920. Stockholm: Daugava, 1967. Edgars Andersons: KÄ? Narva, PeÄ?ori un Abrene tika iekļauta sic Krievijas SociÄ?listiskajÄ? FederatÄ«vajÄ? RepublikÄ? is a translation from Regional Identity under Soviet Rule: The Case of the Baltic States ed by D.A. Loeber, V.S. Vardys and L.P.A. Kitehing, originally published by the Institute for the Study of Law, Politics and Society in Socialist States, University of Kiel, 1990. JÄ?nis Rutkis, ed.: Latvia: Country and People. Stockholm: Latvian National Foundation, 1967. Letters and documents on the annexation from Aldis Bergmanis, Senior Expert at the Centre for Documenting the Consequences of Totalitarianism SAB TSDC, quoted in Jauni fakti par Abrenes pievienoÅ¡anu. Diena, 17 January 1994. Retrieved 3. XII. 2005. On the deportations and population transfer, see JÄ?nis Riekstiņš, KÄ? 'tÄ«rÄ«ja' un 'iekÄ?rtoja' Abrenes pusi. Latvijas AvÄ«ze, 7 June 2004. Retrieved 3. XII. 2005. Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Abrene_district Categories: Geography of Latvia | Geography of Russia | Pskov Oblast | Disputed territories | History of Latvia Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Español í•œêµì–´ LatvieÅ¡u Lietuvių This page was last modified on 2 July 2008, at 08:04
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