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  2. Post-Soviet states - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Republics of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    These existed at all levels of the administrative hierarchy, with the former "countries" and other regions brought into the union referred to as soviets during their time as republics [16] and with the Soviet Union as a whole under the nominal control of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, located in Moscow within the Russian SFSR.

  4. Geography of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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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 GdaƄsk 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.

  5. Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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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 co

  6. Wikipedia:Blank maps - Wikipedia

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    Image:BlankEurope.png – A large map of Europe. 1236x1245px 44.18 KB. Image:BlankMap-Europe.png – Europe as far east as western Russia, western Turkey, and Cyprus. Some of the world's smallest states (e.g., Monaco, Vatican City) appear as single pixels. Includes the former eastern Soviet republics. 450 x 422 pixels, 9 812 bytes.

  7. Subdivisions of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of communist states - Wikipedia

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    Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991) Ukraine. Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917–1918) Odessa Soviet Republic (1918) Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (1918) Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic (1919) Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (1920) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)

  9. National delimitation in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet Union (or more formally USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was established in 1922 as a federation of nationalities, which eventually came to encompass 15 major national territories, each organized as a Union-level republic (Soviet Socialist Republic or SSR). All 15 national republics, created between 1917 and 1940 ...