Republics of the Soviet Union
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“Soviet Socialist Republics” redirects here. For the country, see Soviet Union.
The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics of the Soviet Union were administrative units that report directly to the Government of the Soviet Union.[1] The Soviet Union was a highly centralized state.
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Soviet socialist republic |
member since |
population (1989) |
pop./ USSR pop. (%) |
area (km²) (1991) |
area/ USSR area (%) |
capital |
independent state |
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1922 | 147,386,000 | 51.40 | 17,075,400 | 76.62 | Moscow | ![]() |
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1922 | 51,706,746 | 18.03 | 603,700 | 2.71 | Kiev (Kharkov before 1934) |
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1924 | 19,906,000 | 6.94 | 447,400 | 2.01 | Tashkent (Samarkand before 1930) |
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1936 | 16,711,900 | 5.83 | 2,727,300 | 12.24 | Alma-Ata | ![]() |
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1922 | 10,151,806 | 3.54 | 207,600 | 0.93 | Minsk | ![]() |
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1936 | 7,037,900 | 2.45 | 86,600 | 0.39 | Baku | ![]() |
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1936 | 5,400,841 | 1.88 | 69,700 | 0.31 | Tbilisi | ![]() |
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1929 | 5,112,000 | 1.78 | 143,100 | 0.64 | Dushanbe | ![]() |
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1940 | 4,337,600 | 1.51 | 33,843 | 0.15 | Kishinev | ![]() |
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1936 | 4,257,800 | 1.48 | 198,500 | 0.89 | Frunze | ![]() |
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1940 | 3,689,779 | 1.29 | 65,200 | 0.29 | Vilnius | ![]() |
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1924 | 3,522,700 | 1.23 | 488,100 | 2.19 | Ashkhabad | ![]() |
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1936 | 3,287,700 | 1.15 | 29,800 | 0.13 | Yerevan | ![]() |
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1940 | 2,666,567 | 0.93 | 64,589 | 0.29 | Riga | ![]() |
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1940 | 1,565,662 | 0.55 | 45,226 | 0.20 | Tallinn | ![]() |
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Republics Of The Soviet Union Media
Map of the Union Republics from 1956 to 1991, as numbered by the Soviet Constitution: 1. Russia, 2.
References
- ↑ Hough, Jerry F (1997). Democratization and revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 0-8157-3749-1.