The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic a.k.a. UkrSSR (, ) was created on December 25, 1917, and was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from the time the Union was formed in 1922.  After World War II, in 1945, some amendments to the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR were accepted, which allowed it to act as a separate subject of the international law in some cases and to a certain extent, remaining a part of the USSR at the same time. In particular, these amendments allowed the Ukrainian SSR to become one of founding members of the United Nations (UN) together with the USSR and the Byelorussian SSR. In reality this simply meant giving the Soviet Union extra seats (and votes) in the UN, since the Ukrainian SSR had no independent voice in international affairs.

The Ukrainian SSR was renamed Ukraine on August 24, 1991, and split from the USSR the same day, becoming an independent state.

The capital was first Kharkiv (in 1918-1934) and then Kiev (Kyiv). Crimea was transferred to the republic in 1954 from the Russian SFSR.

The Ukrainian SSR gained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Ukrainian SRR Communist party leaders (and de-facto leaders of the republic) were:

• Georgy Pyatakov (1918)
• Stanislav Kosior (1919-1920)
• Dmitry Manuilsky (1921-1923)
• Emmanuil Kviring (1923-1925)
• Lazar Kaganovich (1925-1928)
• Stanislav Kosior (1928-1938)
• Nikita Khrushchev (1938-1949)
• Leonid Melnikov (1949-1953)
• Alexei Kirichenko (1953-1957)
• Nikolai Podgorny (1957-1963)
• Petro Shelest (1963-1972)
• Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1972-1989)
• Vladimir Ivashko (1989-1990)
• Stanislav Gurenko (1990-1991)

See also

• Communist Party of Ukraine

External links

• Constitution of Ukrainian SSR (1978)

Soviet Republics | History of Ukraine | Ukrainian Revolution

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