Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1936–1991) Украинская Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian) Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка (Ukrainian) Ukrayins'ka Radyans'ka Sotsialistichna Respublika Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (1919–1936) Украинская Социалистическая Советская Республика (Russian) Ukrainskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika Українська Соціалістична Радянська Республіка (Ukrainian) Ukrayins'ka Sotsialistichna Radyans'ka Respublika
1919–1991 1941–1944: German and Romanian occupation
Flag (1950–1991) State emblem (1949–1991)
Motto: Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся! (Ukrainian) "Proletari vsikh krayin, yednaitesia!" (transliteration) "Workers of the world, unite!"
Anthem: Інтернаціонал (Ukrainian) Internatsional  (transliteration) "The Internationale" Державний гімн Української Радянської Соціалістичної Республіки (Ukrainian) Derzhavnyi himn Ukrainskoi Radianskoi Sotsialistychnoi Respubliky  (transliteration) "State Anthem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"
Location of the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union from 1954
Status	Independent Socialist Republic (1919–1922) Union Republic of the USSR (1922–1990) Union Republic with priority of Ukrainian legislation (1990–1991)
Capital	Kharkiv (1919–1934)[1] Kyiv (1934–1991)[2]
Common languages	Russian (dominant)[3][4] Ukrainian (folkloristic)[4] (in 1990 Ukrainian declared as official)a[5]
Government	Soviet republic
First Secretary
• 1918–1919	Emanuel Kviring (first)
• 1990–1991	Stanislav Hurenko (last)
Head of state
• 1919–1938	Grigory Petrovsky (first)
• 1990–1991	Leonid Kravchuk (last)
Head of government
• 1919–1923	Christian Rakovsky (first)
• 1988–1991	Vitold Fokin (last)
Legislature	Supreme Soviet[6]
Historical era	20th century
• Declaration of the Ukrainian Soviet republic	10 March 1919
• Admitted to USSR	30 December 1922
• Annexation of Western Ukraine from Poland	15 November 1939
• Admitted to the United Nations	24 October 1945
• Priority of Ukrainian laws declared, Soviet laws partially abolished	16 July 1990
• Declaration of independence, Ukrainian SSR renamed to Ukraine	24 August 1991
• Ukrainian independence referendum	1 December 1991
• Ratification of agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union	10 December 1991
• Dissolution of the Soviet Union (Ukraine's independence formally recognized)	26 December 1991
• Soviet government officially abolished (New constitution)	28 June 1996
Area
1989 census	603,700 km2 (233,100 sq mi)
Population
• 1989 census	51,706,746
Currency	Soviet ruble (karbovanets)
Calling code	7 03/04/05/06
Preceded by Succeeded by Ukrainian People's Republic Free Territory Second Polish Republic Kingdom of Romania Reichskommissariat Ukraine General Government Polish People's Republic Kingdom of Hungary Crimean Oblast Kingdom of Romania Moldavian SSR Reichskommissariat Ukraine General Government Polish People's Republic Ukraine
Today part of	Ukraine  Russia (some parts disputed)  Moldova  Poland  Romania (Tătaru Mare Island)
Law of Ukraine "About languages of the Ukrainian SSR"
Order of Lenin   Four Hero City awards

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR or Soviet Ukraine was in the southwestern part of the Soviet Union. It had the second largest population of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union. This lasted from 1922 to 1991.

The Ukrainian SSR was a founding member of the United Nations.^[7] It did not really have much power because it was tightly controlled by central all-Soviet Union authorities. When the Soviet Union broke apart, the Ukrainian SSR became Ukraine.

During its 72-year history, the republic's borders changed many times. The eastern city of Kharkiv was the republic's first capital. However, in 1934, it was moved to the city of Kyiv. Kyiv is still the capital of Ukraine. Among other largest cities there were Odesa, Dnipro, Donetsk (named Stalino before 1961), Lviv, Zaporizhia.

1. ↑ "History" (in Ukrainian). Kharkiv Oblast Government Administration. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
2. ↑ Soviet Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. 1969–1972.
3. ↑ Language Policy in the Soviet Union by Lenore Grenoble, Springer Science+Business Media, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4020-1298-3.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Mariya Kapinos. Honest History: Where, why Ukrainians speak Russian language (and how Kremlin uses it to stoke conflict in Ukraine). Kyiv Post. 6 April 2018
5. ↑ Law of Ukraine "About languages of the Ukrainian SSR"
6. ↑ History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442640855
7. ↑ "Activities of the Member States - Ukraine". United Nations. Retrieved 2011-01-17.