[3] On September 26, 1937, based on the Resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR[4] the Vitim-Olyokma national okrug was assigned to the Chita oblast.

By the Resolution of the Organizing Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated 21 September 1938, it was liquidated and its districts were transferred to the direct subordination of the Chita oblast.

[5] In 1931, the Orgburo of the East Siberian Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) for the Vitim-Olyokma national okrug was created.

The structure of the Okrug Committee included organizational, cultural and propaganda, and agitation and mass departments.

On November 15, 1933, the Kyker village council was transferred from the Olinsk raion [ru] of the East-Siberian krai to the Vitim-Olyokma national okrug.

[10] The majority of the population was engaged in gold mining, reindeer herding, and fur harvesting.

The district committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Komsomol carried out work on sedentarization of the Evenk nomads, collectivization of agriculture, introduction of “cultural” (non-nomadic) livestock farming and crop farming into the life of the natives, development of hunting, research and development of natural resources (mainly gold).

Thus, the paleontologist and writer Ivan Yefremov wrote: “In Eastern Siberia there is the Vitim-Olekminsky National Okrug… The inaccessibility and desolation of these places is exceptional.

[9] Cargo was delivered to the district only in winter by horse from the railway stations of Chita, Nerchinsk and Mogocha.