Soviet Union and the United Nations

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Nations membership
Membership	Former full member
Dates	October 24, 1945 – December 26, 1991
UNSC seat	Permanent
Permanent Representative	Andrei Gromyko; (1946–48); Yakov Malik; (1948–52); Valerian Zorin; (1952–53); Andrey Vyshinsky; (1953–54); Arkady Sobolev; (1955–60); Valerian Zorin; (1960–63); Nikolai Fedorenko; (1963–68); Yakov Malik; (1968–76); Oleg Troyanovsky; (1976–86); Yuri Dubinin; (1986); Alexander Belonogov; (1986–90); Yuli Vorontsov; (1990–91);

The Soviet Union was a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent members of the Security Council. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its UN seat was transferred to the Russian Federation, the successor state of the USSR.