My father was born in Ufa, then the capital of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. His parents were Germans who had emigrated to the Soviet Union to escape fascism and returned to ...

DETROIT, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Shariff, Esq., a Michigan-based U.S. attorney, has released a new personal essay on the Russia-America Friendship Society site titled "Crimea and the Path ...

After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1921, Crimea was reclaimed by Russia, became known as the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and effectively became an autonomous Soviet state.

The region’s origins can be traced to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, formed in 1924 within the Ukrainian SSR. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the ...

1921 – After the Red Army invasion, Georgia and Abkhazia are declared Soviet Socialist republics. 1922 – The South Ossetia Autonomous Oblast is created within Georgia.

As a 5-year-old, she fell under the spell of an itinerant accordionist in her impoverished neighborhood of Kazan, the capital of what was then the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1954, Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, transferred the Crimean Peninsula from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In the early days of the Soviet Union, what is now Central Asia was governed by the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, established in 1918.

Those designated as “fathers who founded the modern Kyrgyz statehood,” are: Zhusup Abdrakhmanov: effectively the territory’s prime minister from 1927-1933 when Kyrgyzstan enjoyed autonomous republic ...

It is important to note that the Abkhazian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was part of the Soviet Union with reduced sovereignty, but it was a Soviet socialist state within the Georgian SSR. For ...

It was established with Soviet support after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. In 1944, it was annexed by the Soviet Union, becoming the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within Russia.

With the establishment of the Soviet Union in December 1922, which acknowledged the equal rights of national minorities in its constitution, and the creation of autonomous republics, the early ...