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 ARTICLE 84
 * The People's Commissars of a Union Republic direct the branches of the state administration which come within the jurisdiction of the Union Republic.

ARTICLE 85
 * The People's Commissars of a Union Republic issue, within the limits of the jurisdiction of their respective People's Commissariats, orders and instructions on the basis and in pursuance of the laws of the U.S.S.R. and the Union Republic, of decisions and orders of the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. and that of the Union Republic, and of orders and instructions of the Union-Republican People's Commissariats of the U.S.S.R.

ARTICLE 86
 * The People's Commissariats of a Union Republic are either Union Republican or Republican Commissariats.

ARTICLE 87
 * The Union-Republican People's Commissariats direct the branches of state administration entrusted to them and are subordinate both to the Council of People's Commissars of the Union Republic and to the corresponding Union-Republican People's Commissariats of the U.S.S.R.

ARTICLE 88
 * The Republican People's Commissariats direct the branches of state administration entrusted to them and are directly subordinate to the Council of People's Commissars of the Union Republic.

ARTICLE 89
 * The highest organ of state power of an Autonomous Republic is the Supreme Soviet of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

ARTICLE 90

The Supreme Soviet of an Autonomous Republic is

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