Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească (Romanian) Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ (Moldovan Cyrillic) Молдавская Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian) Moldavskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika
1940–1991
Flag (1952–1990) Emblem (1981–1990)
Motto: "Пролетарь дин тоате цэриле, уници-вэ!" Proletari din toate țările, uniți-vă! "Workers of the world, unite!"
Anthem: Anthem of the Moldavian SSR
Location of the Moldavian SSR (red) within the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1991
Status	Soviet republic
Capital and largest city	Chișinău
Official languages	Moldovan (Romanian) Russian
Minority languages	Gagauz Ukrainian
Demonym(s)	Moldavian
Government	Unitary Marxist–Leninist soviet republic
First Secretary
• 1941–1942 (first)	Piotr Borodin
• 1991 (last)[1]	Grigore Eremei
Head of state
• 1940–1951 (first)	Fyodor Brovko
• 1989–1991 (last)	Mircea Snegur
Head of government
• 1940–1945 (first)	Tihon Konstantinov
• 1991 (last)	Valeriu Muravschi
Legislature	Supreme Soviet
History
• Soviet occupation	28 June–3 July 1940
• Establishment	2 August 1940
• Sovereignty	23 June 1990
• Independence	27 August 1991
• Disestablishment	26 December 1991
HDI (1991)	0.680 medium
Currency	Soviet rouble (Rbl) (SUR)
Calling code	+7 042
Preceded by Succeeded by Romania Moldavian ASSR Moldova Pridnestrovian SSR Gagauz Republic
Today part of	Moldova (including Transnistria)

The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavian SSR (Romanian: Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic: Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ), also known as the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldovan SSR, or simply Moldavia or Moldova, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 from parts of Bessarabia, a region annexed from Romania on 28 June of that year, and parts of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an autonomous Soviet republic within the Ukrainian SSR.

After the Declaration of Sovereignty on 23 June 1990, and until 23 May 1991, it was officially known as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova. From 23 May 1991 until the declaration of independence on 27 August 1991, it was renamed the Republic of Moldova while remaining a constituent republic of the USSR. Its independence was recognized on 26 December of that year when the USSR was dissolved.

Geographically, the Moldavian SSR was bordered by the Socialist Republic of Romania to the west and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the north, east, and south.