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The languages of the Soviet Union consist of hundreds of different languages and dialects from several different language groups. In 1922, it was decreed that all nationalities in the Soviet Union had the right to education in their own language. The new orthography used the Cyrillic, Latin, or Arabic alphabet, depending on geography and ...
They are subject to mandatory ratification. Moreover, in accordance with the Constitution of the USSR (paragraph 3, Article 108), the definition of the state border of the USSR was the exclusive responsibility of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The United States ratified the Agreement on September 16, 1991.
In 1990, Russian became legally the official all-Union language of the Soviet Union, with constituent republics having rights to declare their own official languages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1989, the Ukrainian SSR government adopted Ukrainian as its official language, which was affirmed after the fall of the Soviet Union as the only official state ...
Molotov Line and its fortified districts, on a map showing the borders in the 1939–1941 period. The so-called Molotov Line (Russian: Линия Молотова, Liniya Molotova) comprised a system of border fortified regions built in the Soviet Union in the years 1940–1941 along its new western borders.
Better visibility for disputed borders. 10:33, 24 September 2013: 600 × 371 (1.01 MB) Hellerick: Dashed lines for disputed borders: 03:21, 22 September 2013: 600 × 371 (1.1 MB) Hellerick: Some islands lost. 08:44, 21 September 2013: 600 × 371 (1 MB) Hellerick: User created page with UploadWizard
The Soviet Union had the longest borders of any contemporary country, extending approx. 60,000 km (37,000 mi). [1] [2] They measured some 10,000 kilometers (6,213.7 mi) from Kaliningrad on Gdańsk Bay in the west to Ratmanova Island (Big Diomede Island) in the Bering Strait - the rough equivalent of the distance from Edinburgh, Scotland, westwards to Nome, Alaska.
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After the establishment of the Soviet Union within the boundaries of the former Russian Empire, the Bolshevik government began the process of national delimitation and nation building, which lasted through the 1920s and most of the 1930s. The project attempted to build nations out of the numerous ethnic groups in the Soviet Union.