“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. The Soviet Union was a highly centralized state.
Map of the Union Republics from 1956-1991 | |||||||||||||||
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Soviet socialist republic | member since | population (1989) | pop./ USSR pop. (%) | area (km²) (1991) | area/ USSR area (%) | capital | independent state | No. | |||||||
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | 1922 | 147,386,000 | 51.40 | 17,075,400 | 76.62 | Moscow | Russia | 1 | |||||||
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1922 | 51,706,746 | 18.03 | 603,700 | 2.71 | Kiev (Kharkov before 1934) | Ukraine | 2 | |||||||
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic | 1924 | 19,906,000 | 6.94 | 447,400 | 2.01 | Tashkent (Samarkand before 1930) | Uzbekistan | 4 | |||||||
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic | 1936 | 16,711,900 | 5.83 | 2,727,300 | 12.24 | Alma-Ata | Kazakhstan | 5 | |||||||
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1922 | 10,151,806 | 3.54 | 207,600 | 0.93 | Minsk | Belarus | 3 | |||||||
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic | 1936 | 7,037,900 | 2.45 | 86,600 | 0.39 | Baku | Azerbaijan | 7 | |||||||
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1936 | 5,400,841 | 1.88 | 69,700 | 0.31 | Tbilisi | Georgia | 6 | |||||||
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic | 1929 | 5,112,000 | 1.78 | 143,100 | 0.64 | Dushanbe | Tajikistan | 12 | |||||||
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1940 | 4,337,600 | 1.51 | 33,843 | 0.15 | Kishinev | Moldova | 9 | |||||||
Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic | 1936 | 4,257,800 | 1.48 | 198,500 | 0.89 | Frunze | Kyrgyzstan | 11 | |||||||
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1940 | 3,689,779 | 1.29 | 65,200 | 0.29 | Vilnius | Lithuania | 8 | |||||||
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic | 1924 | 3,522,700 | 1.23 | 488,100 | 2.19 | Ashkhabad | Turkmenistan | 14 | |||||||
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1936 | 3,287,700 | 1.15 | 29,800 | 0.13 | Yerevan | Armenia | 13 | |||||||
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1940 | 2,666,567 | 0.93 | 64,589 | 0.29 | Riga | Latvia | 10 | |||||||
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic | 1940 | 1,565,662 | 0.55 | 45,226 | 0.20 | Tallinn | Estonia | 15 |
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