Karelian ASSR
| Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Карельская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика
Karjalan autonominen sosialistinen neuvostotasavalta |
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| Autonomous republic of Russian SFSR | ||||||
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| Capital | Petrozavodsk | |||||
| Government | Soviet republic | |||||
| History | ||||||
| • | Established | 1923 | ||||
| • | Promoted to SSR | 1940 | ||||
| • | Demotion to ASSR | 6 July 1956 | ||||
| • | Sovereignty declared | 9 August 1990 | ||||
| • | Renamed to Republic of Karelia | 13 November 1991 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| • | 1926 | 147,000 km2(56,757 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1926 | 269,700 | ||||
| Density | 1.8 /km2 (4.8 /sq mi) | |||||
The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Каре́льская Автоно́мная Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, tr. Karelskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika; Finnish: Karjalan autonominen sosialistinen neuvostotasavalta), or, in short, the Karelian ASSR (Russian: Каре́льская АССР, tr. Karelskaya ASSR; Finnish: Karjalan ASNT), sometimes referred to as Soviet Karelia or simply Karelia was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, with the capital in Petrozavodsk.
The Karelian ASSR was formed as a part of the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of June 27, 1923 and by the Decree of the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars of July 25, 1923 from the Karelian Labor Commune. In 1927, the ASSR was divided into districts, which replaced the old volosts.
From 1940 to 1956, territory annexed from Finland was incorporated with the previous Karelian Autonomous Republic to form the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, which had the status of a union republic in the federal structure of the Soviet Union. By this time, only about 10% of the population of this region was of Karelian or Finnish ethnic background.
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