Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Кабардино-Балкарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian) Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Автоном Совет Социал Республикэ (Kabardian) Къабарты-Малкъар Автоном Совет Социалист Республика (Karachay-Balkar)
ASSR of the Russian SFSR
1936–1991
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Location of Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR within Russian SFSR
Capital	Nalchik
• Type	Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
History
• Established	1936
• Kabardin ASSR	1944
• Name restored	1957
• Disestablished	1991
Preceded by Succeeded by Kabardino-Balkarian AO Kabardino-Balkaria

The Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union, and was originally a part of the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On 16 January 1922 the region was detached from the Mountain ASSR and the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Oblast on 1 September 1921.^[vague] It became an autonomous republic on 5 December 1936. On 30 January 1991, the Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR declared state sovereignty.^[1] It is now the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. The Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR bordered no other sovereign states during the existence of the Soviet Union.

Like the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR was shared by two nationalities. Both autonomous republics resided as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and featured Russians as the ethnic majority.^{[2][full citation needed][failed verification]}