Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union.

It occupied about 18,000 square kilometres along the east bank of the Volga River, about sixty kilometres west of the river's confluence with the Kama River and some 700 kilometres east of Moscow. The Chuvash ASSR was formed in 1925 and declared its sovereignty within the Soviet Union in 1990. The primary economic activities are agricultural; grain and fruit production and logging are emphasized. The capital city was Cheboksary.

[edit] See also

• Chuvashia

[edit] References

• This article incorporates public domain text from the Library of Congress Country Studies. - Soviet Union

Autonomous Republics of the Soviet Union

Abkhaz ASSR | Adjar ASSR | Bashkir ASSR | Buryat ASSR | Chechen-Ingush ASSR | Chuvash ASSR | Crimean ASSR | Dagestan ASSR | Kabardin ASSR | Kabardino-Balkar ASSR | Kalmyk ASSR | Karakalpak ASSR | Karelian ASSR | Kazakh ASSR | Komi ASSR | Kyrgyz ASSR | Mari ASSR | Moldavian ASSR | Mordovian ASSR | Nakhichevan ASSR | North Ossetian ASSR | Tatar ASSR | Turkestan ASSR | Tuva ASSR | Udmurt ASSR | Volga German ASSR | Yakut ASSR