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The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census
Soviet Census

Soviet Census may refer to:*Russian Census , which was incomplete*Soviet Census , which only covered urban population*First All Union Census of the Soviet Union ...
 taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

census officially recorded the population of the USSR at 286,717,000, making it the third most populous country in the world. Of the whole population, about 51% lived in the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, making it the most populous of the Soviet Republics.






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The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census
Soviet Census

Soviet Census may refer to:*Russian Census , which was incomplete*Soviet Census , which only covered urban population*First All Union Census of the Soviet Union ...
 taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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The census officially recorded the population of the USSR at 286,717,000, making it the third most populous country in the world. Of the whole population, about 51% lived in the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, making it the most populous of the Soviet Republics. The only other republic to house a large percent of the Soviet population was 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....
, while the rest of the republics had less than 10% of the Soviet population occupying them. About 66% of the population was urban, a sharp increase from the 1970s.