Republics of the Soviet Union
top-level political division of the Soviet Union
The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics of the Soviet Union were administrative units that report directly to the Government of the Soviet Union.[1] The Soviet Union was a highly centralized state.
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Soviet socialist republic |
member since |
population (1989) |
pop./ USSR pop. (%) |
area (km²) (1991) |
area/ USSR area (%) |
capital |
independent state |
No. | |||||||
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1922 | 147,386,000 | 51.40 | 17,075,400 | 76.62 | Moscow | ![]() |
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1922 | 51,706,746 | 18.03 | 603,700 | 2.71 | Kiev (Kharkov before 1934) |
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1924 | 19,906,000 | 6.94 | 447,400 | 2.01 | Tashkent (Samarkand before 1930) |
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1936 | 16,711,900 | 5.83 | 2,727,300 | 12.24 | Alma-Ata | ![]() |
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1922 | 10,151,806 | 3.54 | 207,600 | 0.93 | Minsk | ![]() |
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1936 | 7,037,900 | 2.45 | 86,600 | 0.39 | Baku | ![]() |
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1936 | 5,400,841 | 1.88 | 69,700 | 0.31 | Tbilisi | ![]() |
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1929 | 5,112,000 | 1.78 | 143,100 | 0.64 | Dushanbe | ![]() |
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1940 | 4,337,600 | 1.51 | 33,843 | 0.15 | Kishinev | ![]() |
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1936 | 4,257,800 | 1.48 | 198,500 | 0.89 | Frunze | ![]() |
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1940 | 3,689,779 | 1.29 | 65,200 | 0.29 | Vilnius | ![]() |
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1924 | 3,522,700 | 1.23 | 488,100 | 2.19 | Ashkhabad | ![]() |
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1936 | 3,287,700 | 1.15 | 29,800 | 0.13 | Yerevan | ![]() |
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1940 | 2,666,567 | 0.93 | 64,589 | 0.29 | Riga | ![]() |
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1940 | 1,565,662 | 0.55 | 45,226 | 0.20 | Tallinn | ![]() |
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References
change- ↑ Hough, Jerry F (1997). Democratization and revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 0-8157-3749-1.