The activities of the Commission for Traveling Abroad under the Smolensk Regional Committee of the CPSU in the late 1980s

The paper considers the activities of the Commission for Traveling Abroad operated under the Smolensk Regional Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) in the second half of the 1980s. Using the example of the Smolensk region, the authors highlight the work of an organization that controlled the departure of Soviet citizens abroad. The research was conducted on the basis of archival sources stored in the State Archive of the Modern History of the Smolensk region, many of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.