Kabardino-Balkar ASSR

Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Кабардино-Балкарская АССР  (Russian) Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр АССР  (Kabardian) Къабарты-Малкъар АССР  (Karachay-Balkar)
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1936–1991
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Location of the Kabardino-Balkar ASSR within the Soviet Union.
Capital		Nalchik
Government		One-party Soviet republic
History
•	Established	1936
•	Karbadin ASSR	1944
•	Name restored	1957
•	Disestablished	1991
Preceded by Succeeded by Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Oblast Kabardino-Balkaria

The Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the former Soviet Union, and was originally a part of the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On 16 January 1922 the region was detached from the Mountain ASSR and the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Oblast on 1 September 1921. It became an autonomous republic on 5 December 1936. On 30 January 1991, the Kabardino-Balkar ASSR declared state sovereignty. It is now the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. The Kabardino-Balkar ASSR bordered no other sovereign states during the existence of the Soviet Union.

Like the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the Kabardino-Balkar ASSR was shared by two nationalities. Both autonomous republics resided as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and featured Russians as the ethnic majority.

Both the Russian and Ottoman empires fought for the region between the 17th and 19th centuries, during which the region was under Russian control. After the October revolution, the region joined the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1921, during the Russian Civil War. The territories were detached from the Mountain ASSR to the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Oblast in 1922, and on 5 December 1936 it was renamed the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.