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

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

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Source Valentin Turchin (Wikipedia)Lead section
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was a Soviet and American physicist

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Source Yakovlev AIR-11 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a 3-seat low-wing touring cabin monoplane designed by A.S. Yakovlev in the USSR

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Source Yakovlev AIR-12 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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designed and built in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s

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Source Yakovlev AIR-13 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a projected twin-engined racing aircraft designed during 1935 in the Soviet Union

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Source Yakovlev AIR-16 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a 4-seat cabin monoplane touring aircraft, designed and built in the USSR during 1937

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Source Yakovlev AIR-3 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a 1920s Soviet two-seat general aviation monoplane designed and built by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev

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Source Yakovlev AIR-5 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a prototype Soviet single-engined cabin monoplane designed by the Yakovlev design bureau

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Source Yakovlev AIR-6 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet light utility aircraft of the 1930s

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Source Yakovlev AIR-7 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a prototype Soviet high performance light aircraft of the 1930s

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Source Yakovlev AIR-9 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a 2-seat sport aircraft designed and built in the USSR during the early 1930s

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Source Yakovlev UT-1 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a single-seater trainer aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force from 1937 until the late 1940s

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Source Yakovlev UT-2 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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is a single-engine tandem two-seat low-wing monoplane that was the standard Soviet trainer during World War II

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Source Yakovlev UT-3 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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designed by Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev for the Soviet Air Force (VVS)

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Source Yakovlev VVP-6 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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the Soviet Air Force failed to put land-based VTOL jets into service

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Source Yakovlev Ya-21 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a single-seat high-speed sport aircraft / fighter-trainer designed and built in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s

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Source Yakovlev Yak-1 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II

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Source Yakovlev Yak-10 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet light liaison aircraft designed and built by the Yakovlev design bureau in the 1940s

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Source Yakovlev Yak-100 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a single-engine transport helicopter developed in the USSR in 1948

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Source Yakovlev Yak-1000 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet supersonic technology demonstrator intended to evaluate the aerodynamic layout and field performance of the cropped delta wing

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Source Yakovlev Yak-11 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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used by the Soviet Air Force and other Soviet-influenced air forces

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Source Yakovlev Yak-12 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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used by the Soviet Air Forces, Soviet civilian aviation

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Source Yakovlev Yak-14 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was the largest assault glider ever to enter service with the Soviet Air Force

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Source Yakovlev Yak-140 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet prototype lightweight supersonic fighter developed during the 1950s

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Source Yakovlev Yak-141 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a Soviet supersonic vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft designed by Yakovlev

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Source Yakovlev Yak-15 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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is a first-generation Soviet turbojet fighter

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Source Yakovlev Yak-16 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet light transport that first flew in 1947

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Source Yakovlev Yak-17 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is an early Soviet jet fighter

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Source Yakovlev Yak-18 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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manufactured in the Soviet Union

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Source Yakovlev Yak-19 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a prototype Soviet fighter built in the late 1940s

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Source Yakovlev Yak-2 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a short-range Soviet light bomber/reconnaissance aircraft used during World War II

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Source Yakovlev Yak-20 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was an experimental piston-engined trainer developed in the Soviet Union in 1949

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Source Yakovlev Yak-200 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a prototype Soviet multi-engine trainer built during the 1950s

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Source Yakovlev Yak-23 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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is an early Soviet jet fighter

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Source Yakovlev Yak-24 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a Soviet twin-engine, tandem rotor, transport helicopter

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Source Yakovlev Yak-25 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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built by Yakovlev and used by the Soviet Union

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Source Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947) (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet military aircraft, an early turbojet-powered fighter aircraft designed by the Yakovlev OKB

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Source Yakovlev Yak-26 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet tactical supersonic bomber aircraft flown at the Tushino air show on 24 June 1956

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Source Yakovlev Yak-27 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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is a family of Soviet supersonic aircraft developed in 1958 from the Yak-121 prototype

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Source Yakovlev Yak-28 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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combat aircraft used by the Soviet Union

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Source Yakovlev Yak-3 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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World War II Soviet fighter

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Source Yakovlev Yak-30 (1948) (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was an experimental Soviet interceptor from the late 1940s

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Source Yakovlev Yak-35 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a low-altitude tactical fighter / interceptor project of the Soviet Union from the late 1950s

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Source Yakovlev Yak-36 (Wikipedia)Lead (country-of-origin edge)
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is a Soviet technology demonstrator for a VTOL combat aircraft

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Source Yakovlev Yak-38 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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Soviet Naval Aviation's only operational VTOL strike aircraft

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Source Yakovlev Yak-4 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet light bomber used during World War II

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Source Yakovlev Yak-40 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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designed in Soviet Union by Yakovlev

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Source Yakovlev Yak-42 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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It was the first airliner produced in the Soviet Union

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Source Yakovlev Yak-44 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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intended for use with the Soviet Navy's Ulyanovsk class supercarriers

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Source Yakovlev Yak-46 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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the Soviet Union displayed scale models of several aircraft in development

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Source Yakovlev Yak-5 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was an experimental trainer aircraft designed by Yakovlev OKB in the Soviet Union

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Source Yakovlev Yak-50 (1949) (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was an early experimental turbojet interceptor aircraft designed in 1948 by the Yakovlev OKB in the USSR

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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

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

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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
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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)
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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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