Russian Former Soviet Republics

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps

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Note: Russia is divided on the one hand into 9 large federal districts (created 13 May 2000) and on the other into 85 smaller entities (22 republics, 9 kraya, 46 oblasti, 3 federal cities, 1 autonomous oblast, and 4 autonomous okruga; additionally the special status leased area of Baykonur has the status of a federal city).

Soviet Union: Soviet Union, former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean.

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KGB, Russian in full Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, English Committee for State Security, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union.

Notes ^ Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, formally establishing the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a state and subject of international law.

The post-Soviet states, also collectively known as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or former Soviet Republics, are the states that emerged and re-emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its breakup in 1991, with Russia internationally recognised as the successor state to the Soviet Union after the Cold War.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union) consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries. The USSR’s territory stretched from the Baltic states in Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, including the majority of northern and portions of central Asia. The