On 30 December 1922, Creation
of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet
Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and
Transcaucasian SSR.
Soviet Union, in full Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire
stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its
final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s): Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya
(now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The capital was Moscow, then
and now the capital of Russia.
During the period of its
existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was by area the world’s
largest country. It was also one of the most diverse, with more than 100
distinct nationalities living within its borders. The majority of the
population, however, was made up of East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and
Belorussians); these groups together made up more than two-thirds of the total
population in the late 1980s.
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