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Russian SFSR

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika [RSFSR]), also called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Russian SFSR and the RSFSR for short, was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Soviet republics

Republics of the Soviet Union

The Republics of the Soviet Union were, according to the Article 76 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution, Sovereign Soviet Socialist states that had united with other Soviet Republics to become the Soviet Union....
of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
and became the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Republics of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Administrative division

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in the world by area and 2nd in population after Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh , [often referred to as U.P.] is a States and territories of India located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 190 million people,...
, India. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Sichuan

Sichuan

is a Province in western China proper with its capital in Chengdu. The current name of the province, ?? , is an abbreviation of ??? , or "Four circuit #Circuits in East Asia of rivers", which is itself abbreviated from ???? , or "Four circuits of rivers and gorges", named after the division of the existing circuit into four during the Song...
, China became the 2nd most populous subnational entity until 1997 when it was divided. The capital was Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, also the capital of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet regime was established on November 7, 1917, following the October Revolution. In Russian official documents of the time it was referred to as Russian Republic, Soviet Republic, (or Russian Soviet Republic, among others. On July 10 1918 the 1918 Constitution was accepted, with the official name of Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic; the most recent variant of the name (with "Socialist" and "Soviet" swapped), was adopted in the 1937 Constitution.

In English, the term Bolshevist Russia

Bolshevist Russia

Bolshevist Russia or Bolshevik Russia refers to Russia under the government by the Bolshevik party after the October Revolution. The following different usages may be distinguished....
or Soviet Russia is commonly used for the period 1917–1922.

RSFSR was recognized internationally by only a few states, the Irish Republic

Irish Republic

The Irish Republic was a Declaration of independence independent state of Ireland proclaimed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and established in 1919 by First D?il....
, Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
, Latvia

Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
and Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
. The four last-mentioned countries recognized RSFSR in the Treaty of Tartu

Treaty of Tartu

The Treaties of Tartu were peace treaties between the Russian SFSR on one side and newly independence Estonia and Finland, which had previously been parts of Imperial Russia, on the other....
, 1920.

The RSFSR became part of the Soviet Union in 1922, an act formalised by the 1924 Soviet Constitution

1924 Soviet Constitution

The 1924 Soviet Constitution legitimized the December 1922 union of the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Belarusian SSR, and the Transcaucasian SFSR to form the Soviet Union....
.

On April 17, 1946 the Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
- the north of the former German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
province of East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
- was erected and made part of the Russian SFSR.

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, following the death of Joseph Stalin, and Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964....
transferred Crimea

Crimea

Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or the Ukrainian SSR was one of the founders of the USSR and a republic that made up the former Soviet Union from its formation in 1922 to its abolishment in 1991....
in 1954.

The Congress of Soviets of RSFSR

Congress of Soviets of RSFSR

The Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR , also known as Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR and later Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation was the supreme governing body in Russian SFSR and Russian Federation from 16 May, 1990 to 21 September, 1993....
voted to leave the Soviet Union on December 12, 1991. The country was renamed the Russian Federation on December 25.

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (ASSRs) within the Russian SFSR

Bashkir ASSR
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union. Currently it is known as Bashkortostan....
(1919–1990)
Buryat ASSR
Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union.In 1923, the republic was created with the name Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic....
(1923–1990)
Crimean ASSR
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic was created as part of RSFSR within the Crimean Peninsula, its capital being Simferopol. The official languages were Crimean Tatar language and Russian....
(1921–1945)
Dagestan ASSR
Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union. This "Land of Mountains" was known also for having a "mountain of peoples," with more than 30 nationalities or ethnic groups indigenous to the territory....
(1921–1991)
Yakut ASSR
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union. It was created on April 27, 1922. It is now Sakha Republic of Russia....
(1922–1991)
Kabardino-Balkar ASSR
Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Kabardino-Balkar ASSR was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union. It is now the Kabardino-Balkaria republic....
(1921–1991)
Kalmyk ASSR (1935–1943; 1958–1992)
Karelian ASSR (1923–1940; 1956–1991)
Komi ASSR (1921–1993)
Mari ASSR
Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was the successor of Mari Autonomous Oblast. When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the Mari ASSR became known as the Mari El, a federal subject of the Russian Federation....
(1920–1991)
Mordovian ASSR (1930–1993)
Northern Ossetian ASSR (1924–1993)
Udmurt ASSR (1920–1991)
Volga German ASSR (1918–1941)
Tatar ASSR
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was created on May 27, 1920. Kazan served as its capital....
(1920–1990)
Chechen-Ingush ASSR
Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, or Chechen-Ingush ASSR was an autonomous republics of the Soviet Union within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic....
(1936–1944; 1957–1990)
Chuvash ASSR
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union.It occupied about 18,000 square kilometres along the east bank of the Volga River, about sixty kilometres west of the river's Confluence with the Kama River and some 700 kilometres east of Moscow....
(1925–1990)
Tuva ASSR
Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union. It was created on October 10 1961 from the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast....
(1961–1992)
Kirghiz ASSR (1920–25), then Kazakh ASSR (1925–1936)
Mountain ASSR
Soviet Mountain Republic

Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic or Mountain ASSR was a short-lived autonomous republics of the Soviet Union within the Russian SFSR in the Northern Caucasus that existed from January 20, 1921 to July 7, 1924....
(1921–1924)

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