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English: Republics of the Soviet Union, numbered alphabetically by the English names of the post-soviet states: 1 Armenia, 2 Azerbaijan, 3 Belarus, 4 Estonia, 5 Georgia, 6 Kazakhstan, 7 Kyrgyzstan, 8 Latvia, 9 Lithuania, 10 Moldova, 11 Russia, 12 Tajikistan, 13 Turkmenistan, 14 Ukraine, 15 Uzbekistan
The number of the union republics of the USSR varied from 4 to 16. From 1956 until its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union consisted of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. (In 1956, the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, created in 1940, was absorbed into the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.)
The official names of the Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in the languages of the Soviet Republics (presented in the constitutional order) and other languages of the USSR, were as follows.
The post-Soviet states, also referred to as the former Soviet Union (FSU) [1] or the former Soviet republics, are the independent sovereign states that emerged/re-emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Prior to their independence, they existed as Union Republics, which were the top-level constituents of the Soviet Union.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] 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 .
City Russian name Federal subject; Abakan: Абакан: Republic of Khakassia: Abaza: Абаза: Republic of Khakassia: Abdulino: Абдулино: Orenburg Oblast
Administrative divisions of the Soviet Union by republic Republic Autonomous republics Oblasts Krais Autonomous oblasts Autonomous okrugs; Armenian SSR: Azerbaijan SSR: 1: 1: Byelorussian SSR: 6: Estonian SSR: Georgian SSR: 2: 1: Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940–1956) Kazakh SSR: 19: Kirghiz SSR: 4–7: Latvian SSR: Lithuanian SSR: Moldavian SSR: 7 ...
Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent president, the Vice President of the Soviet Union would assume the office, though the Soviet Union dissolved before this was actually tested. [9] After the failed coup in August 1991, the vice president was replaced by an elected member of the State Council of the Soviet Union. [10]