MASSR

Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Autonomous republic of the Ukrainian SSR
← 1924–1940 →   →
Flag Coat of arms
Motto Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Russian) Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся! (Ukrainian) Пролетарь дин тоате цэриле, униць-вэ! (Moldovan) Proletari din toate țările, uniți-vă!  (Romanian) "Workers of the world, unite!"
Map of the Moldovan ASSR in 1929
Capital		Chișinău (occupied) Balta (1924–28) Birzula (1928–29) Tiraspol (1929–40)
Government		Socialist republic
First Secretary
•	?–1939	Alexei Melnikov
•	1939–1940	Piotr Borodin
History
•	Established	12 October 1924
•	Disestablished	2 August 1940
Area
•	1940	8,100 km2(3,127 sq mi)
Population
•	1940	572,339
	Density	70.7 /km2  (183 /sq mi)
Political subdivisions		Ribnitsa raion Dubossari raion Tiraspol raion Ananyiv raion
Today part of		Moldova  Transnistria  Ukraine

The Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian/Romanian: Република Аутономэ Советикэ Cочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ, Republica Autonomă Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească), shortened to Moldavian ASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Ukrainian SSR between 12 October 1924 and 2 August 1940, encompassing modern Transnistria (now, de jure, in Moldova, de facto, a breakaway state) and a number of territories that are now part of Ukraine.

The creation of the autonomous republic was initiated by a letter signed by Grigore Kotovski, Bădulescu Alexandru, Pavel Tcacenco, Solomon Tinkelman (Timov), Alexandru Nicolau, Alter Zalic, Ion Dic Dicescu (also known as Isidor Cantor), Theodor Diamandescu, Teodor Chioran, and Vladimir Popovici, all signatories being Bolshevik activists (many of them from Bessarabia). Establishing the republic became a matter of dispute. Soviet commissar of foreign relations Chicherin held that its establishment would be premature and would lead to the "expansion of Romanian chauvinism". On the other hand, Kotovski held that a new republic would spread Communist ideas into neighboring Bessarabia, with a chance that even Romania and the entire Balkan region would be revolutionized. On March 7, 1924, it was cautiously decided to create a Moldavian Autonomous Oblast within the Ukrainian SSR.

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