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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 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 ...
Soviet Russia → Soviet Union: Including: February Revolution Revolutions of 1917–1923: Leader(s) Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin: Prime Minister(s) Mikhail Kalinin: Key events: October Revolution Russian Civil War Polish–Soviet War Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics New Economic Policy Death and state funeral ...
A map history of Russia (1983) Chew, Allen F. An Atlas of Russian History: Eleven Centuries of Changing Borders (2nd ed. 1967) Gilbert, Martin. Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th ed. 2007) excerpt and text search; Henry, Laura A. Red to green: environmental activism in post-Soviet Russia (2010) Kaiser, Robert J.
The Soviet Union entered World War II on 17 September 1939 with its invasion of Poland, [137] in accordance with a secret protocol within the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany. [138] The Soviet Union later invaded Finland, [139] and occupied and annexed the Baltic states, [140] as well as parts of Romania.
retouched a few islands, added NI, divided Germany, see talk. Under same lic. as original. 21:40, 11 April 2005: 1,356 × 928 (37 KB) Aris Katsaris: Large map of the Soviet Union, including Soviet Republics, using some kind of non-Robinson projection whose name I'm not sure of. Created by en:User:Morwen. Posted with permission by User:Aris ...
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.
While Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to Russia, have kept Russian as an official language, the language lost its status in other post-Soviet states after the end of the Soviet Union. It maintains semi-official status in all CIS member states, because it is the organisation's official working language, but in the three Baltic ...