Byelorussian SSR
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| State motto: Пралетарыі ўсіх краін, яднайцеся! | |||||
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| Official language | None. (Constitutionally, all languages were equal. However, Russian was considered the language of international communication, thus putting Belarusian at a disadvantage.) | ||||
| Capital | Minsk | ||||
| Chairman of the Supreme Council | Stanislav Shushkevich (at independence) | ||||
| Established In the USSR: - Since - Until | January 1 1919 December 30 1922 December 8 1991 | ||||
| Area - Total - % water | Ranked 6th in the USSR 207,600 km² -- | ||||
| Population - Total (1989) - Density | Ranked 5th in the USSR 10,151,806 48,9/km² | ||||
| Currency | Ruble (рубель) | ||||
| Time zone | UTC + 3 | ||||
| Anthem | Anthem of Byelorussian SSR | ||||
The Byelorussian SSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; Russian Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Belarusian Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка) was one of the four original founding members of the U.S.S.R. in 1922, together with Ukrainian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR.
The republic was in the west part of the USSR and its capital was Minsk. The Byelorussian SSR was created on January 1 1919.
Area: 207,6 km²
Population: 8,897,000 (1969)
Nationality (1959):
- Belarusians - 81%
- Russians - 8,2%
- Poles - 6,7%
- Jews - 1,9%
- Ukrainians - 1,7%
- other
Other larger cities:
After the Second World War Byelorussian SSR was given a seat in the United Nations General Assembly together with the U.S.S.R. and Ukrainian SSR, so it became one of the founding members of the UN. The republic was renamed into Republic of Belarus on September 19 1991, remaining in the USSR for three more months before independence.
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