Supreme Soviet of Russia

Supreme Council of the Russian SFSR Supreme Council of the Russian Federation Верховный Совет РСФСР Верховный Совет Российской Федерации
Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation (1990—1993)
Type
Type	Supreme Council Unicameral (up to 1990) Bicameral
Chambers	Council of Nationalities Council of the Republic
History
Established	1938
Disbanded	1993
Preceded by	VTsIK and All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Succeeded by	Federal Assembly of Russia
Leadership
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet	Ruslan Khasbulatov (last)
Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities	Ramazan Abdulatipov
Chairman of the Soviet of Republic	Veniamin Sokolov
Seats	Dynamic (1938—1978) 1 deputy per 150,000 citizens (1938—1978) 975 (1978—1990) 252 (1990–1993)
Elections
Last general election	16 May–22 June 1990 First session of the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia (indirect)
Meeting place
White House
Footnotes
^ Last direct (but rigged) general elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR were held in 1985. Powers of that Supreme Soviet (XI convocation) had expired in May 1990 (just some months after passage of the 1989 constitutional amendments)

Dynamic (1938—1978)

The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (Russian: Верховный Совет РСФСР, Verkhovnıy Sovet RSFSR), later Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation (Russian: Верховный Совет Российской Федерации, Verkhovnıy Sovet Rossiyskoi Federatsii) was the supreme government institution of the Russian SFSR in 1938–1990; in 1990–1993 it was a permanent parliament, elected by the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation.

The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR was established as similar structure as the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1938, instead of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) as the highest organ of power of Russia.

In the 1940s, the Supreme Soviet Presidium and the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR were located in the former mansion of counts Osterman (str Delegatskaya, 3), which was later in 1991 given to a museum. The sessions were held in Grand Kremlin Palace. In 1981 the Supreme Soviet was moved to a specially constructed building on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, The House of Soviets.

The Supreme Council was abolished in October 1993 (after the events of Russia's 1993 constitutional crisis) and replaced by the Federal Assembly of Russia (consists of the Federation Council of Russia and State Duma), whose powers are weaker than Supreme Council ones.