"On the establishment of registration of the natural movement of the population."

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks "On the establishment of registration of the natural movement of the population." September 21, 1935

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Famine in the USSR 1929-1934. Volume 3. Summer 1933 - 1934 M .: MFD, 2011. Pp. 640-641

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To acknowledge that due to the lack of control and leadership on the part of local party and Soviet organizations, and especially TsUNKHU, the work of organizations for registering the natural movement of the population in the field, this registration until recently (before the transfer of registry offices to the NKVD) was in a clearly unsatisfactory state. The accounting authorities were often used by class enemies (priests, kulaks, former whites) who crept into these organizations and carried out counter-revolutionary, sabotage work there, hiding population growth by underestimating the birth rate and clearly exaggerating the death rate of the population by registering several deaths of the same persons several times.

In order to further improve the registration of the natural movement of the population, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) decide:

1. Introduce, from January 1, 1936, the obligatory issuance by the departments of acts of civil status of the NKVD of special certificates on stamped paper on birth in a special form approved by the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

Establish from the same time the mandatory presentation of all citizens upon admission to schools, technical schools and universities and upon conscription of the above birth certificates.

2. To propose to the NKVD - Comrade Yagoda, together with Comrade Vyshinsky, to develop and submit for approval to the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR a single union law on the registration of births and deaths.

The law, in particular, provide for:

a) the terms and procedure for registration;

b) liability for evasion of registration of births and deaths and for violation of the deadlines for registration established by law;

c) the criminal liability of the secretaries of the village councils for the refusal or for untimely registration and for failure to submit in time the primary reporting data on the natural movement of the population, as well as for the submission of incorrect data.

3. Establish that local departments of civil status of the NKVD (OAGSy), when registering marriages and divorces, must require registrants to submit passports in cities, and in rural areas birth certificates, in which to make notes on marriage or divorce.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR V. Molotov

Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) I. Stalin