Soviet republic of Georgia

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა Грузинская Советская Социалистическая Республика Gruzinskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika
1921–1922 (as independent state) 1936–1991 (as part of Soviet Union)
Flag (1951–1990) State emblem (1978–1990)
Anthem Anthem of the Georgian SSR
Location of Georgia (red) within the Soviet Union.
Capital		Tbilisi
Languages		Georgian Russian Abkhaza Ossetianb, Mingrelian language, Svan language.
Government		Soviet Socialist Republic
First Secretary
•	1921–1922	Mamia Orakhelashvili
•	1989–1990	Givi Gumbaridze
Chairman of the Council of Ministers
•	1946	Valerian Bakradze
•	1990–1991	Tengiz Sigua
History
•	Soviet invasion and occupation	11 February 1921
•	Formation	25 February 1921
•	Admitted to USSR	30 December 1922
•	TSFSR dissolved	5 December 1936
•	Sovereignty declared	18 November 1989
•	Renamed to Republic of Georgia	18 November 1990
•	Independence declared	9 April 1991
•	Independence recognized	26 December 1991
Area
•	1989	69,700 km2 (26,900 sq mi)
Population
•	1926 est.	2,666,000
•	1989 est.	5,400,841
Density		77/km2 (201/sq mi)
Calling code		+7 881/882/883
Preceded by Succeeded by Democratic Republic of Georgia Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Georgia
Today part of		Armenia  Azerbaijan  Georgia  Russia
a.	In the Abkhazian ASSR.
b.	In the South Ossetian AO.

Georgia, formally the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; Georgian: საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, translit.: sakartvelos sabch'ota sotsialist'uri resp'ublik'a; Russian: Грузинская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit. Gruzinskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also commonly known as Soviet Georgia, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union from its inception in 1922 to its breakup in 1991.

It is coterminous with the present-day republic of Georgia, a preexisting country in the Caucasus which gained autonomy as a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics after being annexed by the Russian Empire in 1810 and in 1921 by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. From November 18, 1989, the Georgian SSR declared its sovereignty over Soviet laws. The republic was renamed the Republic of Georgia on November 14, 1990, and subsequently became independent before the dissolution of the Soviet Union on April 9, 1991, whereupon each former SSR became a sovereign state.

Geographically, the Georgian SSR was bordered by Turkey to the south-west and the Black Sea to the west. Within the Soviet Union it bordered the Russian SFSR to the north, the Armenian SSR to the south and the Azerbaijan SSR to the south-east.