Country

Soviet Union

Historical union state, Eastern Europe and Northern Asia (1922-1991)

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve other countries. A diverse multinational state, it was organized as a federal union of national republics, with the largest and most populous being the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR). Its capital and largest city was Moscow.

Facts
Capital
Moscow 1
Population
293,047,571 1
Area (sq km)
22,402,200 1
Independence or Founding Year
1922 1
Dissolution or End Year
1991 1
Classification
Sovereignty Status
Historical or Dissolved State 1
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Spanish Civil War

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Nationals Include

Vladimir Chelomey

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Source Chelomei, Vladimir Nikolayevich (Encyclopedia Astronautica)Biography header [nationality]
Quote, Biography header [nationality]
Soviet Chief Designer 1955-1984 of OKB-52.
Vladimir Dzhanibekov

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Vladimir Kovalyonok

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Vladimir Shatalov

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Vladislav Volkov

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Yelena Kondakova

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Yelena Serova

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Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Kondratyuk

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Yuri Romanenko

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Zhanna Yorkina

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Alevtina Kolchina

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Source Alevtina Kolchina (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
11 November 1930 – 1 March 2022) was a Soviet cross-country skier
Alexander Alekhine

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Source Wikidata: Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Tikhonov

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Source Alexander Tikhonov (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
is a former Soviet-Russian biathlete
Alexander Zaitsev

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Source Wikidata: Alexander Zaitsev
Alexei Ulanov

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Source Wikidata: Alexei Ulanov
Andrei Tchmil

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Source Andrei Tchmil (Wikipedia)Lead, earlier nationalities
Quote, Lead, earlier nationalities
Soviet (until 1991), Moldovan (1992
Anfisa Reztsova

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Source Anfisa Reztsova (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet and Russian biathlete and cross-country skier
Boris Shakhlin

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Source Boris Shakhlin (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet gymnast
Boris Spassky

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Source Wikidata: Boris Spassky
Elisaveta Bykova

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Source Elisaveta Bykova (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet chess player and twice Women's World Chess Champion
Elvīra Ozoliņa

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Source Elvīra Ozoliņa (Wikipedia)Lead sentence
Quote, Lead sentence
is a retired Soviet javelin thrower
Galina Korchuganova

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Source Galina Korchuganova (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet test pilot
Galina Kulakova

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Source Galina Kulakova (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
is a Soviet-Russian former cross-country skier
Galina Prozumenshchikova

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Source Galina Prozumenshchikova (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet breaststroke swimmer who also competed in medley relays
Galina Zybina

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Source Galina Zybina (Olympedia)Biographical information, NOC
Quote, Biographical information, NOC
NOC Soviet Union
Gavriil Kachalin

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Source Gavriil Kachalin (Olympedia)Biographical information, NOC
Quote, Biographical information, NOC
NOC Soviet Union
Givi Nodia

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Source Givi Nodia (Wikipedia)Lead, international career
Quote, Lead, international career
was a Soviet Georgian association football player
Guram Gedekhauri

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Source Guram Gedekhauri (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
is a Soviet wrestler
Igor Zhelezovski

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Source Igor Zhelezovski (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet and Belarusian speed skater
Inga Artamonova

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Source Inga Artamonova (Wikipedia)Lead section [nationality]
Quote, Lead section [nationality]
was a Soviet speed skater
Ivan Kizimov

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Source Wikidata: Ivan Kizimov
Leonid Meshkov

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Source Leonid Meshkov (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet swimmer and water polo player
Lev Yashin

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Ludmilla Tourischeva

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Source Ludmilla Tourischeva (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
a nine-time Olympic medalist for the Soviet Union
Lyudmila Rudenko

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Source Lyudmila Rudenko (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion
Marina Kosheveya

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Source Marina Kosheveya (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
is a former Soviet swimmer and olympic champion
Mikhail Tal

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Source Wikidata: Mikhail Tal
Moisey Kasyanik

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Source Moisey Kasyanik (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet weightlifter
Nellie Kim

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Source Nellie Kim (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
is a retired Soviet and Belarusian gymnast
Nikolai Andrianov

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Source Wikidata: Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolay Zimyatov

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Source Nikolay Zimyatov (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
is a Soviet and Russian cross-country skier
Oleg Protopopov

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Oleksandr Sydorenko

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Source Oleksandr Sydorenko (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was an individual medley swimmer from the USSR
Olga Rubtsova

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Source Olga Rubtsova (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion
Polina Astakhova

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Source Polina Astakhova (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet and Ukrainian artistic gymnast
Raisa Smetanina

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Source Raisa Smetanina (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
representing the Soviet Union
Sergei Filatov

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Source Wikidata: Sergei Filatov
Sergei Grinkov

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Source Sergei Grinkov (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
a Soviet and Russian pair skater
Sergei Kovalenko

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Source Sergey Kovalenko (Olympedia)Biographical information, NOC
Quote, Biographical information, NOC
NOC Soviet Union URS

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Origin Of

Postconstructivism

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Source Postconstructivism (Wikipedia)Lead section
Quote, Lead section
Postconstructivism was a transitional architectural style that existed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, typical of early Stalinist architecture before World War II.
Soviet Architectural Modernism

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Andrei Tarkovsky

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Rudolf Nureyev

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Sots Art

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Source Sots Art (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
Quote, Lead, origin
originated in the Soviet Union during the period dubbed the "Era of Stagnation"
Anatoly Alexandrov

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Andrei Sakharov

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George Gamow

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Source George Gamow (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet and American polymath
Georgy Flyorov

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Moisey Shepshelevich Lyakhovitsky

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Source Moisey Shepshelevich Lyakhovitsky (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
еврейский советский писатель
Natan Yavlinsky

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Source Natan Yavlinsky (Wikipedia)Lead, role
Quote, Lead, role
was a physicist in the former Soviet Union
Sergey Zhuk

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Source Sergey Zhuk (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet hydraulic engineer, technician and state official
Sofia Viktorovna Semikhatova

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Source Sofia Viktorovna Semikhatova (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet geologist and paleontologist
Tereza Margulova

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Source Tereza Khristoforovna Margulova (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet scientist, professor, and the founder of the Department of Nuclear Power Stations of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Zhores Alferov

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Battleship Potemkin

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Close to Eden

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Come and See

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Earth

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Man with a Movie Camera

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October: Ten Days That Shook the World

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Solaris

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Stalker

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Storm Over Asia

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Strike

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The Ascent (1977 film)

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The Colour of Pomegranates

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The Cranes Are Flying

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The Theme

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Dressed herring

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Source Dressed herring (Wikipedia)Infobox: country
Quote, Infobox: country
USSR
Mimosa salad

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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And Quiet Flows the Don

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Source One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Wikipedia)tier 2
Roadside Picnic

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The Master and Margarita

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The Twelve Chairs

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AMO-F-15

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Source AMO-F-15 (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
Quote, Lead, manufacturer
was a light truck based on the Italian Fiat 15Ter made at the AMO-plant in Moscow in the Soviet Union
Antonov A-13

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Source Antonov A-13 (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
The Antonov A-13 was a Soviet aerobatic sailplane
Antonov A-40

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Source Antonov A-40 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield
Antonov A-7

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Source Antonov A-7 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
The Antonov A-7 was a Soviet light troop military glider of World War II.
Antonov A-9

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Source Antonov A-9 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
designed and built in the USSR in the 1940s
Antonov An-10

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Source Antonov An-10 (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
is a four-engined turboprop passenger transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union
Antonov An-12

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Source Antonov An-12 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
produced at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant and the Tashkent Mechanical Plant in the Soviet Union
Antonov An-124 Ruslan

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Source Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Antonov An-14

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Source Antonov An-14 (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
is a Soviet utility aircraft which was first flown on 15 March 1958
Antonov An-2

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Source Wikipedia: Antonov An-2Lead, country of origintier 2
Quote, Lead, country of origin
is a Soviet mass-produced single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft
Antonov An-22

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Source Antonov An-22 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
produced by the Tashkent State Aircraft Factory in the Soviet Union
Antonov An-225 Mriya

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Source Antonov An-225 Mriya (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
designed and produced by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union
Antonov An-24

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Source Antonov An-24 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
Quote, Lead, country of origin
designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau

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Site Of

Battleship Potemkin

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Interkosmos

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Soviet space program

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GAZ Chaika

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Source GAZ Chaika (Wikipedia)Lead, country
Quote, Lead, country
is a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union
Lisunov

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Source Boris Lisunov (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet aerospace engineer
Polikarpov

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Source Polikarpov (Wikipedia)Lead, Soviet bureau
Quote, Lead, Soviet bureau
Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft

Found There

Collectivization in the Soviet Union

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1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union

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Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

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Constitution of the Soviet Union (1936)

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Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union

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Source Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was created in 1924 by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union as a court for the higher military and political personnel of the Red Army and Fleet
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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Source Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (source article)Opening definition [country-or-jurisdiction]
Quote, Opening definition [country-or-jurisdiction]
signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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Source Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Wikipedia)Lead, third paragraph
Quote, Lead, third paragraph
The PTBT was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow on 5 August 1963
People's Court (Soviet Union)

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Source People's Court (Soviet Union) (Wikipedia)Lead, country
Quote, Lead, country
A people's court in the late Soviet Union was a court of first instance
START I

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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Source Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
Quote, Lead paragraph
bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union

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Source Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
Quote, Lead paragraph
The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, officially the Supreme Court of the USSR (Russian: Верховный Суд СССР) was the supreme judicial organ of the Soviet Union during its existence.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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Soviet Union-United States radio chess match of 1945

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Source Soviet Union-United States radio chess match of 1945 (Wikipedia)Lead [origin-region]
Quote, Lead [origin-region]
a chess match between the United States and the USSR
Battle of Moscow

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Dmitry Karbyshev

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Source Dmitry Karbyshev (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Red Army general, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy
Mikhail Tukhachevsky

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Source Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Wikipedia)Lead, first sentence
Quote, Lead, first sentence
was a Soviet general
Soviet Armed Forces

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Soviet Army

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Source Soviet Army (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992
Sources
1. Wikidata: Soviet Union
  • Wikidata Q15180, historical-state QID for cross-atlas nationality mapping (w-bbfill-sport6-0927)
  • Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
  • Wikidata P1082 (population), preferred/latest rank
  • Wikidata Q15180, class allow-list match (Q3024240 historical country)
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Soviet Union (Wikipedia)
Introduction
Quote, Introduction
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.

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