Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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Crimean ASSR
Qrьm ASSR
Крымская АССР
Flag of the Crimean ASSR, 1938.
Capital city Simferopol
44°57′N 34°6′E
Official languages Crimean Tatar, Russian
Area km²
Population
 - Density

p/km²
Currency
Soviet ruble
Historical era
 - Establishment
 - Demotion into oblast
Soviet
October 18, 1921
June 30, 1945
← Taurida GovernorateCrimean Oblast →

Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Modern Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Sotsialist Sovet Cumhuriyeti; Official Crimean Tatar name (Uniform Turkic Alphabet): Qrьm Avonomjalь Sotsialist Sovet Respublikasь; Russian: Крымская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика - Krymskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Socialisticheskaya Respublika) (October 18, 1921June 30, 1945) was created as part of RSFSR within the Crimean Peninsula, its capital being Simferopol. The official languages were Crimean Tatar and Russian.

A significant part of its population were Crimean Tatars, who were stripped of their property and civil rights and forcibly resettled to Central Asia in 1944. (Their constitutional rights were restored in 1967.) However, they were not allowed to return until the last days of the Soviet Union.

In 1945 it was converted into the Crimean Oblast of RSFSR, which was transferred to Ukrainian SSR in 1954.

The autonomy was reestablished in 1991 as a part of independent Ukraine. Today it is officially named the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.


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Coat of arms of the Soviet Union Abkhaz ASSR | Adjar ASSR | Bashkir ASSR | Buryat ASSR | Chechen-Ingush ASSR | Chuvash ASSR | Crimean ASSR |
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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


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