This is an odd request but I need help from anyone who may know anything about this. I was researching dog breeds created during the Soviet Union (for fun, I have Dog Autism) and I fell down a rabbit hole. When reading about the Estonian Hound I kept coming across variations of this sentence: "[They were] bred in 1947 when the Soviet Union's Ministry of Agriculture and Economy decided that every country in the USSR must have its own breed."
Now, I don't doubt that this happened. The problem is, I cannot find ANY records of it. I'm betting they're out there, I just can't find them. So far the ONLY mentions of this are from sources discussing the Estonian Hound. Some sources will give more detail; usually that the decree aimed to establish smaller, local, hunting breeds to replace the larger foreign breeds used to hunt at the time. Sometimes, they'll add that these large breeds were thought to endanger the survival of native wildlife. Another problem is that I can't seem to find any other breeds that were developed as a result of this decree, and given that it was a multi-national order, I would assume there would be more than one breed created as a result.
Granted, I'm searching in English and can't read any Russian past the basics, but I've hit a wall. I found a paper on ResearchGate, "The History of the 1947 Monetary Reform of the USSR in Moscow and Leningrad," but I'm not sure it will have what I'm looking for. I've emailed the authors for a copy but I'm still waiting to hear back. This is driving me crazy, there seems to be no lasting effects from (or records of, for that matter) this Official USSR Decree besides in the minds of Estonian Hound lovers worldwide. ANYONE, PLEASE, HELP.