Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR

Чӑваш АССР (Chuvash)
Чувашская АССР (Russian)

ASSR of the Russian SFSR

1925–1992

Flag

Emblem

Map of the Chuvash Republic in Russia today, the same territory as the Chuvash ASSR

Capital

Cheboksary

• Type

Soviet republic

History

• Established

1925

• Disestablished

1992

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Chuvash AO

Chuvashia

Today part of

Russia

The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Chuvash: Чӑваш Автономлӑ Совет Социаллӑ Республики, romanized: Chăwash Avtonomlă Sovet Sociallă Respubliki; Russian: Чувашская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Chuvashskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union.

It occupied about 18,000 square kilometres (6,900 square miles) along the east bank of the Volga River, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of the river's confluence with the Kama River and some 700 kilometres (430 miles) east of Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

The successor of the Chuvash Autonomous Oblast, the Chuvash ASSR was formed in 1925.^[1] It declared its sovereignty within the Soviet Union in 1990 as the Chuvash Republic (still within Russia).^{[citation needed]}

Its primary economic activities were agricultural.^[1] Grain and fruit production and logging are emphasized.^{[citation needed]} The capital city was Cheboksary.^[1]

Notable people

Eduard Mochalov (born 1974), journalist and former businessman

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Gawdiak, Ihor Y. (1991). "Chuvash". In Zickel, Raymond E. (ed.). Soviet Union: a country study (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 181. ISBN 0-16-036380-2. OCLC 22911443.

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union

By name

By year
established

1918–1924 Turkestan³
1918–1941 Volga German⁴
1919–1990 Bashkir
1920–1925 Kirghiz²
1920–1990 Tatar
1921–1991 Adjarian
1921–1945 Crimean
1921–1991 Dagestan
1921–1924 Mountain

1921–1990 Nakhichevan
1922–1991 Yakut
1923–1990 Buryat¹
1923–1940 Karelian
1924–1940 Moldavian
1924–1929 Tajik
1925–1992 Chuvash⁵
1925–1936 Kazakh²
1926–1936 Kirghiz

1931–1992 Abkhaz
1932–1992 Karakalpak
1934–1990 Mordovian
1934–1990 Udmurt⁶
1935–1943 Kalmyk
1936–1944 Checheno-Ingush
1936–1944 Kabardino-Balkarian
1936–1990 Komi
1936–1990 Mari