Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics
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Union of Sovereign States |
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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 |
| Religion | see Religion in the Soviet Union |
| Demonym |
Russian Soviet |
| Republics |
 Russian SFSR Ukraine Belarus Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Kirghizia Tajikistan Turkmenia Uzbekistan
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| Government | Proposed 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: Союз Суверенных Государств (ССГ), translit. 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 the then 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 1991 Coup and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December of that year. 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, translit. Novyy soyuznyy dogovor) 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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