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Several different governments controlled the Crimean Peninsula during the period of the Soviet Union, from the 1920s to 1991.The government of Crimea from 1921 to 1936 was the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, [c] which was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR); the name was altered slightly to the Crimean Autonomous ...
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English: Map of Russia including internationally-unrecognized illegally-annexed Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation, with Crimea in red. Русский: Карта Республики Крым на карте России, 2022
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1991–1992) Crimean Federal District; Republic of Crimea (Russia) Southern Federal District; User:Falcaorib/Russia and Soviet Union; User:ZeroRose/sandbox; Template:Infobox Russian federal subject/testcases
[5] [6] On 1 June, the Crimean SSR joined in military union with soviet republics in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, and Latvia. [6] The republic was declared to be a non-national entity based on the equality of all nationalities. [5] Nationalization of industry and confiscation of the land of landlords, kulaks, and the church were ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [t] (USSR), [u] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [v] 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 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.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many designs were used by separatists from Crimea. [3] The most commonly used design in public was a white flag with a blue outline map of Crimea, reminiscent of the flag of Cyprus. However, many Supreme Council of Crimea members had supported the version of a white flag with seven rainbow colors at ...