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The Soviet and Russian Navy had until 2002 [26] maintained a presence in Vietnam at the US-built military base in Cam Ranh Bay which had been turned over to the Republic of Vietnam Navy and captured by North Vietnamese forces in 1975. By 1987, the Soviets expanded the base to four times its original size.
In the Soviet Union, a Union Republic (Russian: Сою́зная Респу́блика, romanized: Soyúznaya Respúblika) or unofficially a Republic of the USSR was a constituent federated political entity with a system of government called a Soviet republic, which was officially defined in the 1977 constitution as "a sovereign Soviet ...
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 .
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, 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 .
A soviet republic (from Russian: Советская республика, romanized: Sovetskaya respublika), also called council republic, is a republic in which the government is formed of soviets (workers' councils) and politics are based on soviet democracy.
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic [a] (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic [2] and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia, [3] was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991 ...
Category:Second Polish Republic Category:Transcaucasian SFSR Category:Tuvan PR Category:Ukrainian SSR. History of Russia Category:Soviet Union 1922–1991 Succeeded by Category:Armenia Category:Azerbaijan Category:Belarus Category:Estonia Category:Georgia Category:Kazakhstan Category:Kyrgyzstan Category:Latvia Category:Lithuania Category ...
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 ...