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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [334r] (670/1237)
The record is made up of 1 file (615 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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94. ^upuly Department* i^o iasue of piece g&ode has yet been made
in Tabriz, thou/ h this has been done in ^ahabad ana Rezaieh.
( f r 4 4 ; •
95* Russian Coiamercial Affairs* the Riusalacns are continuing with
their plan of erecting a bulk oil storage depot opposite the TabBiz
station (see diary para 24)* They have now agreed to purchase
58,000 square metres of land at Rials 5 per square metre and are
awaiting the sanction of the registration authorities in Tehran. In
the meantime various construction materials are being accumulated on
the site*
ih© Russians, led by the acting Oonsul-Gencral, have obliged
the iuiosrovi leather
factory
An East India Company trading post.
by the exercise of considerable pressure
to lease the annex of their
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at a rental of Rials 9,000 per
month to serve as a workshop.
There are unconfirmed rumours that the Russians are planning
to start four industrial plants in iabriz, Including a ^lass
factory
An East India Company trading post.
*
The ixussians have purchased 1,000 tons of raisins at
Rials 11 per kilo lor delivery Julfa and Sharif Rhaneh, 500 tons of
apricots at i;iala 8 per kilo for delivery at Julfa and also 100 tons
of sour apricot kernels at Rials 14*75 per kilo.
There is increasing evidence of the corruptibility of Soviet
guards at road control posts and appreciable quantities of forbidden
exports are finding their way southwards by this mesas* There seems
also to be a growing tendency for other Soviet officials to conform
to local standards in similar respects.
Other Ooiuiucrcial ...<ewa* There has been a renewal of speculat
ion and the upward trend of prices. The issue of new banknotes has
been widely interpreted as an inflationary measure and there has
been a rush to purchase gold and put money into goods, particularly
carpets, which have advanced from 10 to 15 . with a further anticipat
ed increase, rrieea of wheat, sugar, tea, cotton yarn and most
foodstuffs have risen considerablte’.
Complaints have been made oy the silkworm cultivators of
ATasoaran that they have been unable to obtain silkworm egg a from
tae government. Through the intermediary of the Department of
Tndastry at Tabriz they offered to deposit the total purchase price
with the Rational ^ank, but the only reply they could obtain was
that they should present themselves in Tehran to arrange the deal.
They decided that they could afford neither the Journey to Tehran
nor the bribes likely to be expected of them when they reached it*
(3gd.) T.C. RAPP*
Ii._. ^onaul-General.
dritish Consul at e-beneral,
TAoRXi.
19th April, 1944
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Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fortnightly) basis by the British Consul-General at Tabriz, reporting on events in Azerbaijan and Tabriz. Reports up to July 1942 are printed, while subsequent reports are typewritten. The typewritten reports are organised under subheadings that vary from one report to the next, but generally cover: weather; agriculture, locust movements, food supply and reports of hoarding; consular tours; the activities of consular colleagues and counterparts; local government, local politics, and elections; Kurdish affairs, including events at Rezaieh [Orūmīyeh]; Armenian affairs; public order; the activities of the Persian, Russian and United States military; trade, commerce and labour; transport and communications, including convoys, and the activities of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); propaganda. From late 1944 onwards the reports increasingly focus on rising political and social unrest in Azerbaijan, which would eventually culminate in the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. These later reports focus on the emergence and activities of new political parties (including the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party), new political newspapers, and Soviet activities in Azerbaijan.
The file also includes: correspondence sent by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, forwarding the Tabriz Consul’s reports with comments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; note sheets covering numerous reports, giving a précis of the report’s contents; the translation of a report by the Persian Minister for War, secretly obtained by British sources, describing military and political conditions at Rezaieh, dated 17 May 1942 (ff 560-564); a report of a visit to Rezaieh in February 1945, compiled by the British Consul-General at Tabriz (ff 147-154).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (615 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 617; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:69v, 71r:136v, 138r:150v, 150ar:150av, 151r:194v, 196r:197v, 199r:300v, 302r:420v, 424r:560v, 565r:575v, 577r:581r, 583r:616v, back-i, back
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