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The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic [a], also known as Soviet Turkmenistan, the Turkmen SSR, TuSSR, Turkmenistan, or Turkmenia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union located in Central Asia existed as a republic from 1925 to 1991.
In 1925, Turkmenistan became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR); it became independent after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [ 6 ]
English: Locator map of the Turkmen SSR in the Soviet Union (1989). Extracted from File: ... Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic; Usage on sc.wikipedia.org
Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion. Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.
The name Turkmenistan is derived from Persian, meaning "land of the Turkmen". The name of its capital, Ashgabat, derived from Persian as well, loosely translating as "the city of love". Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.
Turkmenistan has an embassy in Moscow. In 1885 the modern-day Turkmenistani region became absorbed into the Russian Empire. After 1924 it became a Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union until declaring independence in 1991. The two nations have thus been mutually friendly for the past centuries.
The Turkestan Soviet Federative Republic was officially proclaimed on 30 April 1918. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the late 1917, the TSFR was cut off from the RSFSR by the revolt of the Orenburg Cossacks , but held out, despite being surrounded by hostile states, until the arrival of the Red Army in September 1919 after the Counteroffensive of Eastern Front .
According to interstate and international compacts Turkmenistan is the legal successor of the Turkmen SSR, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Turkmen SSR.