Union of Sovereign States
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Union of Sovereign States
Союз Суверенных Государств (Russian)
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The Soviet Republics which drafted the New Union Treaty (orange and dark red) and the non-participating republics (black).
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| Status | Non-existent |
| Capital and largest city |
Moscow |
| Official languages |
Russian Ukrainian Belarusian |
| Republics |
 Russian SFSR Ukraine Byelorussia Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Kirghizia Tajikistan Turkmenia Uzbekistan
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| Government | Provisional confederation |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | |
| Confederation | |
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• Proposed
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23 November 1990 |
| 17 March 1991 | |
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• "9+1" Agreement
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23 April 1991 |
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8 December 1991 |
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| Area | |
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• Total
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22,402,200 km2 (8,649,500 sq mi) |
| Population | |
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• 1991 estimate
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293,047,571 |
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• Density
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13.1/km2 (33.9/sq mi) |
| Currency | Soviet ruble (руб) (SUR) (SUR) |
| Time zone | (UTC+2 to +12) |
| Drives on the | right |
| Internet TLD | .su |
The Union of Sovereign States (Russian: Сою́з Сувере́нных Госуда́рств [ССГ] Soyuz Suverennykh Gosudarstv [SSG]) was the proposed name of a reorganization of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into a new confederal entity. Proposed by President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, the proposal was an attempt to avert the collapse of the Soviet Union. The proposal was never implemented in the wake of the August Coup and the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The overall proposal was resurrected as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although as a regional organization, not a confederation.
The New Union Treaty (Russian: Новый союзный договор) was a draft treaty that would have replaced the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and thus would have replaced the Soviet Union with a new entity named the Union of Sovereign States, an attempt of Mikhail Gorbachev to salvage and reform the Soviet state. A ceremony of the Russian SFSR signing the treaty was scheduled for 20 August 1991, but was prevented by the August Coup a day earlier. The preparation of this treaty was known as the Novo-Ogarevo process (новоогаревский процесс), named after Novo-Ogaryovo, a governmental estate where the work on the document was carried out and where Gorbachev talked with leaders of Union republics.
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