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2 unusual facts about ASSR


ASSR

Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, now Armenia (generally abbreviated ArmSSR)

Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, now Azerbaijan (generally abbreviated AzSSR)


1978 Georgian demonstrations

In May 1978, several thousands of Abkhaz nationalists assembled in the village of Lykhny to support 130 Abkhaz Communists, who had signed the letter to Moscow, demanding that the Abkhaz ASSR be allowed to be transferred from Georgia to the Russian SFSR.

Administrative divisions of the Republic of Tatarstan

Initially, the territory of the ASSR was divided into ten kantons - Sviyazhsk, Tetyushi, Buinsk, Spassk, Chistopol, Menzelinsk, Bugulma, Arsk, Laishevo, and Mamadysh.

Boris Markov

Boris Markov was born and spent children's and youthful years in Khitekushkan' village ((Tautovskoye Rural Settlement)) of the Alikovsky District of the Chuvash ASSR.

Nurlatsky District

Nurlatsky District, Tatar ASSR (1927–1963), a district of the Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

In October 1929, under the initiative of Shirinsho Shotemur, the Tajik ASSR was transformed into a full-fledged Soviet Socialist Republic and became Tajik SSR, which additionally absorbed the Khujand region (today's Sughd Province in northern Tajikistan) from Uzbek SSR.

Viacheslav Tsugba

From 1973 until 1975, Tsugba was 1st secretary of the Abkhazian regional committee of the Komsomol, from 1975 until 1978 he was 1st secretary of the Ochamchira raikom of the CPSU, and from 1978 to 1989 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Abkhazian ASSR.


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