Origins, Organization and Territorial Placement of People’s Courts in the Altai Governorate in 1920-1922

The paper describes the origins, organizational specifics and territorial placement of people’s courts in Altai Governorate in 1920-22 in the context of the region’s remoteness. The organizational specifics come down to the fact that the courts in the governorate were established unevenly, that is, not at the same time. The author analyzes the order in which individual people’s courts in different uyezds of the governorate were established. The paper outlines the staffing issues that Altai Governorate was faced with when it came to the people’s judges following the Bolsheviks’ rise to power as well as before and after the judicial reform of 1922.