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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. Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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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 co

  4. List of conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union

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    This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states. Others involved separatist ...

  5. 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 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.

  6. Union Republics of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Succession, continuity and legacy of the Soviet Union

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was a founding member of the United Nations as well as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (Soviet Union and the United Nations).

  8. Eastern Bloc - Wikipedia

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    In 1939, the Soviet Union unsuccessfully attempted an invasion of Finland, [49] subsequent to which the parties entered into an interim peace treaty granting the Soviet Union a portion of the eastern region of Karelia (10% of Finnish territory), [49] and the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was established by merging the ceded ...

  9. Closed city - Wikipedia

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    Dnipro – former closed city, a major center of Soviet aerospace industry. Simferopol-28, Crimea – former closed town, a Soviet military space mission control center. Kamianske – former closed city, largest Uranium processing factory in former Soviet Union. [28] Feodosia-13, Crimea – former closed town, a central storage of nuclear weapons.