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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

Ivan Khitskov

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Konstantin Glinka

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Nikolai Vavilov

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Selman Waksman

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Trofim Lysenko

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Kazimir Malevich

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Konstantin Stanislavski

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Sergei Eisenstein

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Wassily Kandinsky

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Alexander Yakovlev

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Source Alexander Yakovlev (engineer) (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet aeronautical engineer.
Mikhail Yangel

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Source Mikhail Yangel (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk
Aleksandr Kronrod

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Alexey Lyapunov

Also in Computing Atlas: a national of this subject.

Andrey Ershov

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Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov

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Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev

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Valentin Turchin

Also in Computing Atlas: a national of this subject.

Source Valentin Turchin (Wikipedia)Lead section
Quote, Lead section
was a Soviet and American physicist
Victor Glushkov

Also in Computing Atlas: a national of this subject.

Vladimir Levenshtein

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Source Vladimir Levenshtein (Wikipedia)Lead section
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was a Russian and Soviet scientist
Yefim Dinitz

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Vladimir Bogoraz

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Alexander Fersman

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Vladimir Obruchev

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Vladimir Vernadsky

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Leonid Kantorovich

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Aleksei Leontiev

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Source Aleksei Leontiev (Wikipedia)intro of the article
Quote, intro of the article
Aleksei Nikolayevich Leontiev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Лео́нтьев, IPA: [lʲɪˈonʲtʲjɪf]; February 18, 1903 – January 21, 1979), was a Soviet Russian developmental psychologist and philosopher and a founder of activity theory.
Lev Vygotsky

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Sergei Rubinstein

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Source Wikipedia: Sergei Rubinsteinintro of the article
Quote, intro of the article
Sergei Leonidovich Rubinstein (Russian: Сергей Леонидович Рубинштейн; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1889 – 11 January 1960) was a Soviet psychologist and philosopher and one of the founders of the Marxist tradition in Soviet psychology.
Alexander Dovzhenko

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Source Alexander Dovzhenko (Wikipedia)
Andrei Tarkovsky

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Boris Dyozhkin

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Source Boris Dyozhkin (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
was a Soviet animator, animation and art director
Dziga Vertov

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Elem Klimov

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Erast Garin

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10 November [O.S. 28 October] 1902 – September 4, 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.
Larisa Shepitko

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Source Larisa Shepitko (Wikipedia)
Mikhail Kalatozov

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Rustam Khamdamov

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Source Rustam Khamdamov (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [nationality]
Quote, Lead paragraph [nationality]
is a Soviet and Russian film director and artist
Sergei Eisenstein

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Sergei Parajanov

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Vsevolod Pudovkin

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Yuri Ozerov

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Source Yuri Ozerov (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
Quote, Lead, nationality
was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter
Alexander Rekunkov

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Alexander Volchkov (jurist)

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Anatoly Kovler

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Andreas von Tuhr

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Source Andreas von Tuhr (Wikipedia)tier 2
Andrey Vyshinsky

Also in Law Atlas: a national of this subject.

Aron Trainin

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Source Aron Trainin (Wikipedia)tier 2
Evgeny Pashukanis

Also in Law Atlas: a national of this subject.

Source Evgeny Pashukanis (Wikipedia)tier 2

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Origin Of

Kh-20

Also in War and Military Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Kh-20 (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-22

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Source Kh-22 (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-23 Grom

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Source Kh-23 Grom (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-25

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Source Kh-25 (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-31

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Source Kh-31 (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-32

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Source Wikipedia: Kh-32Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-35

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Source Kh-35 (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-55 Cruise Missile

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Source Wikipedia: Kh-55Infobox: origintier 4
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kh-58

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Source Wikipedia: Kh-58Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Kilo-Class Submarine

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Source Wikipedia: Kilo-class submarineLeadtier 4
Quote, Lead
The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy.
Korovin pistol

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Source Wikipedia: Korovin pistolInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
KPV heavy machine gun

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Source Wikipedia: KPV heavy machine gunInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
KS-1 Komet

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Source KS-1 Komet (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
KS-23

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Source Wikipedia: KS-23Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
KSR-5

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Source KSR-5 (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
KV tank family

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Source Wikipedia: KV tank familyInfobox: origintier 4
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
KV-1

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Source Wikipedia: KV tank familyInfobox: origintier 4
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
M-11 Shtorm

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Source Wikipedia: M-11 ShtormInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Makarov PM Pistol

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Source Makarov pistol, WikipediaInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Maxim-Tokarev

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Source Wikipedia: Maxim-TokarevInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
Metel Anti-Ship Complex

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Source Wikipedia: Metel Anti-Ship ComplexInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
MiG-15

Also in War and Military Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Wikipedia: MiG-15Leadtier 2
Quote, Lead
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Russian: Микоян-Гуревич МиГ-15; USAF/DoD designation: Type 14; NATO reporting name: Fagot) is a single-seat transonic jet fighter aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich for the Soviet Union.
MiG-21

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Source Wikipedia: MiG-21Leadtier 4
Quote, Lead
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.
MiG-29

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Source Wikipedia: MiG-29Leadtier 2
Quote, Lead
The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: Микоян МиГ-29; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union.
MON-100

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Source MON-100, WikipediaLead
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The MON-100 is a circular, sheet metal bodied, directional type of anti-personnel mine designed and manufactured in the early 1960s by the Soviet Union.
MON-50

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Source MON-50, WikipediaLead
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The MON-50 (Russian: МОН-50) is a Soviet rectangular, slightly convex, plastic bodied, directional type of anti-personnel mine designed to wound or kill by explosive fragmentation.
MON-90

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Source MON-90, WikipediaLead
Quote, Lead
The MON-90 (Russian: МОН-90) is a Claymore-shaped, plastic bodied, directional type of anti-personnel mine designed in the Soviet Union.
MT-LB

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Source Wikipedia: MT-LBInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
NR-40 Combat Knife

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Source Wikipedia: NR-40Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
USSR
NRS-2

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Source NRS-2 (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
NSV machine gun

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Source Wikipedia: NSV machine gunInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
OTR-21 Tochka

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Source Wikipedia: OTR-21 TochkaInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
OTR-23 Oka

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Source Wikipedia: OTR-23 OkaInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
OZM

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Source Wikipedia: OZMLead
Quote, Lead
The OZM-3, OZM-4 and OZM-72 are Soviet manufactured bounding type anti-personnel mines.
P-120 Malakhit

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Source Wikipedia: P-120 MalakhitInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
P-15 Termit

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Source Wikipedia: P-15 TermitInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
P-270 Moskit

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Source P-270 Moskit (Wikipedia)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
P-70 Ametist

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Source Wikipedia: P-70 AmetistInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
P-800 Oniks

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Source Wikipedia: P-800 OniksInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union / Russia
Pantsir missile system

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Source Wikipedia: Pantsir missile systemInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union / Russia
Pantsir-S1

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Source Wikipedia: Pantsir missile systemInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union / Russia
PB (pistol)

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Source PB pistol (Wikipedia article)Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
PMN mine

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Source Wikipedia: PMN mineLead
Quote, Lead
The PMN (Russian: противопехотная мина нажимная, romanized: protivopekhotnaya mina nazhimnaya, lit. 'anti-infrantry pressure-activated mine') series of blast anti-personnel mines were designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union.
Polyus (spacecraft)

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Source Wikipedia: Polyus (spacecraft)Lead
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The Polyus spacecraft (Russian: Полюс, pole), also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototype Soviet orbital weapons platform designed to destroy Strategic Defense Initiative satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.
PP-90

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Source Wikipedia: PP-90Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
PPD-40

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Source Wikipedia: PPD-40Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
PPS Submachine Gun

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Source Wikipedia: PPS submachine gunInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
PPS-43

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Source Wikipedia: PPS-43Infobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
PPSh-41

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Source Wikipedia: PPSh-41Infobox: origintier 2
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union
PSS silent pistol

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Source Wikipedia: PSS silent pistolInfobox: origin
Quote, Infobox: origin
Soviet Union

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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
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is a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union
Lisunov

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

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Source Polikarpov (Wikipedia)Lead, Soviet bureau
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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
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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was a Soviet general
Soviet Armed Forces

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Soviet Army

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Source Soviet Army (Wikipedia)Lead
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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
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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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