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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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The Soviet Union was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. It was a major ally during World War II, a main participant in the Cold War, and it grew in power to become one of the world's two superpowers (the other being the United States). The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
The Soviet Union is treated basically as a separate continent with its own physical, political, transportation and time zone maps. It is mentioned in the preface that the number of the maps of the Soviet Union is decreased compared to the previous edition, because of the interim publishing of a separate atlas specifically dedicated to the ...
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [u] (USSR), [v] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [w] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area , extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries , and the third-most populous country .
Map of the Union Republics between 1956 and 1991 1 Russian SFSR: 2 Ukrainian SSR: 3 Byelorussian SSR: 4 Uzbek SSR: 5 Kazakh SSR: 6 Georgian SSR: 7 Azerbaijan SSR: 8 Lithuanian SSR: 9 Moldavian SSR: 10 Latvian SSR: 11 Kirghiz SSR: 12 Tajik SSR: 13 Armenian SSR: 14 Turkmen SSR: 15 Estonian SSR