Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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Map of Soviet Central Asia in 1922 with the Turkestan ASSR and the Kyrgyz ASSR (present-day Kazakhstan).

Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (initially Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic) (April 30, 1918 – October 27, 1924) was created from the Turkestan Krai of Imperial Russia. Its capital was Tashkent, population about 5,000,000.

In 1924 it was split into Tajik ASSR (now Tajikistan), Turkmen SSR (now Turkmenistan), Uzbek SSR (now Uzbekistan), Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (now Kyrgyzstan), and Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast (now Karakalpakstan).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Basmachi
• Soviet Central Asia
• U.S.S.R.

v • d • e 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  · Kirghiz ASSR  · Mari ASSR  · Moldavian ASSR  · Mordovian ASSR  · Mountain ASSR  · Nakhchivan ASSR  · North Ossetian ASSR  · Tatar ASSR  · Turkestan ASSR  · Tuva ASSR  · Udmurt ASSR  · Volga German ASSR  · Yakut ASSR

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