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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.
Map of the Union Republics between 1956 and 1991 1 Russian SFSR: 2 Ukrainian SSR: 3 Byelorussian SSR: 4 Uzbek SSR: 5 Kazakh SSR: 6 Georgian SSR: 7 Azerbaijan SSR: 8 Lithuanian SSR: 9 Moldavian SSR: 10 Latvian SSR: 11 Kirghiz SSR: 12 Tajik SSR: 13 Armenian SSR: 14 Turkmen SSR: 15 Estonian SSR
According to the constitution of the USSR, in case of a union republic voting on leaving the Soviet Union, autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and autonomous okrugs had the right, by means of a referendum, to independently resolve whether they will stay in the USSR or leave with the seceding union republic, as well as to raise the issue of ...
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 October – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1965–1980) (born 1918) 20 November – Avtandil Gogoberidze, football player (born 1922) 18 December – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964–1980) (born 1904) Date unknown
The Soviet Union was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. It was a major ally during World War II, a main participant in the Cold War, and it grew in power to become one of the world's two superpowers (the other being the United States). The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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The Cold War from 1979 to 1985, was a late phase of the Cold War marked by a sharp increase in hostility between the Soviet Union and the West.It arose from a strong denunciation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.