Passport Offices

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PASSPORT OFFICES, institutions issuing passports and registering citizens were created by order of the Central Executive Committee and Soviet of People's Commissariat of the USSR in December, 27 1932 following the introduction of the united passport system. At the beginning of January 1933, a Passport department was created in the structure of the Administration of Workers’ and Peasants’ Militia of Leningrad and of Leningrad Region, to which district subdivisions were subordinated; some 300 special points for issuing passports were founded at various enterprises. In 1934, circa 86 thousand people received administrative punishment for violating passport requirements in the city and in limited access districts of Leningrad Region. In September 1935, exchange of passports started "with the purpose of revealing socially alien and counterrevolutionary elements" (all in all some 1.5 million passports were to be replaced). As a result of exchange and re-registration of passports some 25,200 people who were found not to have the right to live in the city were moved away from Leningrad. Today all the units and militia stations have Passport Offices. At present there are 140 Passport Offices functioning in St. Petersburg and in Leningrad Region.

Reference: Введение единой паспортной системы: Материалы для докладчиков и беседчиков. М.; Л., 1933; Крапивина Н. С. Ленинградская милиция и предвоенное десятилетие, 1930-1941 гг.: Ист. и правовые аспекты. СПб., 1998.

E. P. Bogoslovskaya. Введение единой паспортной системы: Материалы для докладчиков и беседчиков. М.; Л., 1933
Крапивина Н. С. Ленинградская милиция и предвоенное десятилетие, 1930-1941 гг.: Ист. и правовые аспекты. СПб., 1989 1933
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