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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Other names Союз Советских Социалистических Республик Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik
1922–1991
Flag State Emblem
Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Translit.: Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes'!) English: Workers of the world, unite!
Anthem: "The Internationale" (1922–1944) "National Anthem of the Soviet Union" (1944–1991)
The Soviet Union after World War II
Capital and largest city	Moscow
Common languages	Russian, many others
Religion	None (State atheism) (see text)
Demonym(s)	Soviet
Government	Union, Marxist–Leninist single-party state
General Secretary
• 1922–1952	Joseph Stalin (first)
• 1991	Vladimir Ivashko (last)
Head of State
• 1922–1938	Mikhail Kalinin (first)
• 1988–1991	Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
Head of Government
• 1922–1924	Vladimir Lenin (first)
• 1991	Ivan Silayev (last)
Legislature	Supreme Soviet
• Upper house	Soviet of the Union
• Lower house	Soviet of Nationalities
Historical era	Interwar period / Cold War
• Treaty of Creation	30 December 1922
• Union dissolved	26 December 1991
Area
1991	22,402,200 km2 (8,649,500 sq mi)
Population
• 1991	293,047,571
Currency	Soviet ruble (руб) (SUR) (SUR)
Time zone	UTC+2 to +13
Calling code	7
Internet TLD	.su2
Preceded by Succeeded by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Russia1 Ukraine Belarus Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Georgia Azerbaijan Lithuania3 Moldova Latvia3 Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Armenia Turkmenistan Estonia3
1 Russia never seceded, this was by agreement of the 12 at time of formal dissolution, Russia assumed the rights and obligations of the dissolved central Soviet authority, Duma has declared Russia continuous. 2On 21 December 1991, eleven of the former socialist republics declared in Alma-Ata (with the 12th republic – Georgia – attending as an observer) that with the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceases to exist. 2Assigned on 19 September 1990, existing onwards. 3Western governments such as those of the EU and the USA view Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as continuous and unrelated to the respective Soviet republics. Russia views the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian SSRs as legal constituent republics of the USSR and predecessors of the modern Baltic states.