Ukrainian SSR
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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:
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Georgy Pyatakov (1918)
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Stanislav Kosior (1919-1920)
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Dmitry Manuilsky (1921-1923)
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Emmanuil Kviring (1923-1925)
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Lazar Kaganovich (1925-1928)
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Stanislav Kosior (1928-1938)
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Nikita Khrushchev (1938-1949)
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Leonid Melnikov (1949-1953)
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Alexei Kirichenko (1953-1957)
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Nikolai Podgorny (1957-1963)
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Petro Shelest (1963-1972)
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Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1972-1989)
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Vladimir Ivashko (1989-1990)
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Stanislav Gurenko (1990-1991)
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Communist Party of Ukraine*
Constitution of Ukrainian SSR (1978)
