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Republics of the Soviet Union

Soviet Socialist Republic
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Category Federated state
Location Soviet Union
Created by Treaty on the Creation of the USSR
Created 30 December 1922
Abolished by State Council recognition of the Baltic states independence
Declaration no. 142-Н
Abolished 6 September 1991
26 December 1991
Number 15 (as of 1989)
Possible status The Baltic republics were de jure not recognized by several countries.
Populations 1,565,662 (Estonia) – 147,386,000 (Russian SFSR)
Areas 29,800 km2 (11,500 sq mi) (Armenia) – 17,075,400 km2 (6,592,800 sq mi) (Russian SFSR)
Government Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republics
Subdivisions Autonomous SSRs, oblasts, Autonomous oblasts,

1. Armenia
2. Azerbaijan
3. Byelorussia
4. Estonia (Not internationally recognized)
5. Georgia
6. Kazakhstan
7. Kirghizia
8. Latvia (Not internationally recognized)
9. Lithuania (Not internationally recognized)
10. Moldavia
11. Russian SFSR
12. Tajikistan
13. Turkmenia
14. Ukraine
15. Uzbekistan

The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics (Russian: союзные республики, soyuznye respubliki) of the Soviet Union were ethnically based administrative units that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union. For most of its history, the Soviet Union was a highly centralized state; the decentralization reforms during the era of Perestroika ("Restructuring") and Glasnost ("Openness") conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.


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