![]() It was the largest country in the world, covering over 22,402,200 square kilometres (8,649,500 sq mi) and spanning eleven time zones. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev ( Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent ( Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata ( Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. ![]() (Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikalari Ittifoqi) ( Uzbek) (Soyuz Radyansʹkykh Sotsialistychnykh Respublik) ( Ukrainian) (Sowet Sotsialistik Respublikalary Soýuzy) ( Turkmen) (Ittihodi Çumhurihoi Şūraviji Sosialistī) ( Tajik) (Uniunea Republicilor Sovietice Socialiste) ( Romanian) Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga ( Lithuanian) Padomju Sociālistisko Republiku Savienība ( Latvian) (Keŋeştik Sotsialisttik Respublikalar Birligi) ( Kyrgyz) (Keñestik Socïalïstik Respwblïkalar Odağı) ( Kazakh) (Sabch’ota Sotsialist’uri Resp’ublik’ebis K’avshiri) ( Georgian) Nõukogude Sotsialistlike Vabariikide Liit ( Estonian) (Sajuz Savieckich Sacyjalistyčnych Respublik) ( Belarusian) (Sovet Sosialist Respublikaları İttifaqı) ( Azerbaijani) (Khorhrdayin Sots’ialistakan Hanrapetut’yunneri Miut’yun) ( Armenian) ![]() ![]() (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik) ( Russian) ![]() Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( English) ![]()
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