Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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| State motto (Ukrainian): Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся! (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) | |||||
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| Official language | None. (Unofficially: Ukrainian and Russian in varying degree at different times and regions) | ||||
| Capital | Kiev | ||||
| Chairman of the Supreme Council | Leonid Kravchuk (at the time of regaining independence) | ||||
| Established In the USSR: - Since - Until | December 25 1917 December 30 1922 August 24 1991 | ||||
| Area - Total - % water | Ranked 3rd in the USSR 603,700 km² -- | ||||
| Population
- Total (1989) - Density | Ranked 2nd in the USSR
51,706,746 85,6/km² | ||||
| Currency | Ruble () | ||||
| Time zone | UTC+3 | ||||
| Anthem | Anthem of Ukrainian SSR | ||||
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic a.k.a. UkrSSR (#redirect , Russian: ) was created on December 25, 1917, and was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from the time the Union was formed in 1922. After World War II, in 1945, some amendments to the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR were accepted, which allowed it to act as a separate subject of the international law in some cases and to a certain extent, remaining a part of the USSR at the same time. In particular, these amendments allowed the Ukrainian SSR to become one of founding members of the United Nations (UN) together with the USSR and the Byelorussian SSR. In reality this simply meant giving the Soviet Union extra seats (and votes) in the UN, since the Ukrainian SSR had no independent voice in international affairs.
The Ukrainian SSR was renamed Ukraine on August 24, 1991, and split from the USSR the same day, becoming an independent state.
The capital was first Kharkiv (in 1918-1934) and then Kiev (Kyiv). Crimea was transferred to the republic in 1954 from the Russian SFSR.
The Ukrainian SSR gained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ukrainian SRR Communist party leaders (and de-facto leaders of the republic) were:
- Georgy Pyatakov (1918)
- Stanislav Kosior (1919-1920)
- Dmitry Manuilsky (1921-1923)
- Emmanuil Kviring (1923-1925)
- Lazar Kaganovich (1925-1928)
- Stanislav Kosior (1928-1938)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1938-1949)
- Leonid Melnikov (1949-1953)
- Alexei Kirichenko (1953-1957)
- Nikolai Podgorny (1957-1963)
- Petro Shelest (1963-1972)
- Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1972-1989)
- Vladimir Ivashko (1989-1990)
- Stanislav Gurenko (1990-1991)
See also
External links
| Armenian SSR | Azerbaijan SSR | Byelorussian SSR | Estonian SSR | Georgian SSR | Kazakh SSR | Kirghiz SSR | Latvian SSR | Lithuanian SSR | Moldavian SSR | Russian SFSR | Tajik SSR | Turkmen SSR | Ukrainian SSR | Uzbek SSR Short-lived Soviet republics: Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956) | Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936) |
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