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Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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(In Detail) (In Detail)
State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!
(Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes'!)
(Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Last Chairman of the Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin Area
 - Total
 - % water 1st in former Soviet Union
17,075,200 km²
0.5% Population
 - Total
 - Density 1st in former Soviet Union
147,386,000
8.6/km² Establishment November 7, 1917 Dissolution December 12 1991 Currency Soviet ruble Time zone UTC +2 to +11 (modern Russia is +3 to +12) National anthems
The Internationale (1922-1944)
Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) The Russian SFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic aka Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) () was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Soviet republics, and became the modern day Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The state was established on November 7, 1917. On July 10 1918 the 1918 Soviet Constitution was accepted. It was made into a part of the Soviet Union in 1922, an act later formalised by the 1924 Soviet Constitution. In English, the term Bolshevist Russia is commonly used for the period 1917–1922. In Russian official documents of the time it was referred to as Russian Republic (Российская республика) and Soviet Republic (Советская республика).

The country was run by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (most recent title). Its capital was Moscow, also the capital of the Soviet Union.

Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1955.

Russian SFSR ceased to be a part of the USSR on December 12 1991, 14 days before USSR ceased to exist. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the RSFSR rejected a socialist system and went through reforms. It was renamed as the Russian Federation under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), founded after the breakup of the USSR, loosely bound the former Soviet republics, except for Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Georgia (until 1993).

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See also


Soviet Republics | History of Russia

Руска Съветска Федеративна Социалистическа Република | República Socialista Federada Soviètica de Rússia | Russische SFSR | Vene NFSV | República Socialista Federativa Soviética de Rusia | République socialiste fédérative soviétique de Russie | 러시아 소비에트 사회주의 연방공화국 | RSFS Rusia | RSSF Russa | Руска СФСР | Russische Socialistische Federatieve Sovjetrepubliek | ロシア・ソビエト連邦社会主義共和国 | Rosyjska Federacyjna Socjalistyczna Republika Radziecka | República Socialista Federada Soviética da Rússia | Republica Sovietică Federală Socialistă Rusă | Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика | Venäjän sosialistinen federatiivinen neuvostotasavalta | Ryska SFSR | Російська Радянська Федеративна Соціалістична Республіка | 俄罗斯苏维埃联邦社会主义共和国

 

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