Later, other commissariats were also merged. The Ukrainian SSR bordered on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south, on Romania, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, and Hungary in the southwest, on Czechoslovakia and Poland in the west, on the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the north, and on the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in the northeast and east. The population of the Ukrainian SSR, second only to that of the RSFSR, was 51.7 million according to the 1989 census; 34.6 million, or 67 percent of it, was urban. U kraine was formally incorporated into the USSR as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR) in 1922. Republic of Soviets of Ukraine, a predecessor 1917; Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, official name 1919–1936; Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, UkSSR, from Russian During its 72-year history, the republic's borders changed many times. When the Soviet Union broke apart, the Ukrainian SSR became Ukraine. The eastern city of Kharkiv was the republic's first capital. Until the end of 1991 the Ukrainian SSR was part of a broader federation of the USSR and its governing organs were subordinated to the governing organs of the USSR. The Ukrainian SSR ceased to exist on 24 August 1991, when the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR proclaimed the independent state of Ukraine. For most of its history, the USSR was a highly centralized state; the decentralization Ukraine after Shelest (Edmonton 1983)Lewytzkyj, B. The Second Soviet Republic: The Ukraine after World War II (New Brunswick, NJ 1964)Lewytzkyj, B. The new constitutions of the USSR (1936) and the Ukrainian SSR (1937) centralized the government system even further. As the rights of the Union republics were expanded after Joseph Stalin’s death, the Ukrainian SSR received in its revised constitution some new powers in administrative, judicial, and economic matters. Structural changes in the ministries could be made thenceforth by legislative enactment. Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (1919–1936). The Ukrainian SSR gained the right to pass its own laws in the field as long as they were consistent with Union legislation and were called for by Union organs. In 1917–27 the highest governing body of Soviet Ukraine was the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets. It had the second largest population of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian: Українська Радянська Cоціалістична Pеспубліка, УPCP Ukrаїns'ka Radyans'ka Sotsialistychna … When reading the text below, note one historic peculiarity of USSR of that time. The Sickle, Bullfrog, Akula and Ukraine Artillery guns were made in this country. The Constitution of 1 February 1944 gave the Ukrainian SSR new powers in foreign relations and defense by establishing Union-republican commissariats (later ministries) in those areas. In 1954 Crimea oblast was transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. (For the history of the Ukrainian SSR see History of Ukraine. The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, with its Presidium, became the highest governing body, and the Council of People's Commissars (from 1946, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR) became the highest executive organ. Until 1937 it was called the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (; Ukrainska Sotsialistychna Radianska Respublika). Lying between 52°10ʹ and 40°23ʹ N latitude (893 km from north to south) and between 22°10ʹ and 40°15ʹ E longitude (1,316 km from west to east), the Ukrainian SSR had an area of 603,700 sq km. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic [Українська Радянська Соціялістична Республіка; Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika, or УРСР; URSR; Ukrainian SSR]. In the revised (May 1925) Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and its new version (1929) the governing bodies remained similar to the previous ones: the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (headed by Hryhorii Petrovsky), and the Council of People's Commissars (headed by Vlas Chubar and later by Panas Liubchenko). The republic was one of 15 constituent republics composing the Soviet Union from its entry into the union in 1922 till its dissolution in 1991. T… The Ukrainian SSR was a founding member of the United Nations. The Ukrainian SSR was absorbed into the RSFSR by the merging of their commissariats on the basis of so-called defensive or economic alliance treaties between two or more Soviet republics (1 June 1919 and 28 December 1920). Until 1990 the leading force in the political system in the Ukrainian SSR was the Communist Party of Ukraine, which was merely a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Sickle, Bullfrog, Akula and Ukraine Artillery guns were made in this country. In fact, Russia’s legislative acts were enforced automatically in Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Media in category "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" The following 22 files are in this category, out of 22 total. All of the po­lit­i­cal power and au­thor­ity in the USSR was in the hands of Com­mu­nist Party au­thor­i­ties, with lit­tle real power being con­cen­trated in of­fi­cial gov­ern­ment bod­ies and or­gans. Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the third-largest USSR republic, after the RSFSR and the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Ukraine is bordered by Moldavian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Russian SFSR, and Czechoslovakia. A referral to this page is found in 113 entries. Less than three-quarters of the population was Ukrainian (72.7 percent), over one-fifth was Russian (22.1 percent), and other national minorities accounted for the remaining 5.2 percent (including 0.95 percent Jews, 0.86 percent Belarusians, 0.63 percent Moldavians, 0.45 percent Bulgarians, 0.43 percent Poles, 0.32 percent Hungarians, 0.26 percent Romanians, 0.19 percent Greeks, and 0.17 percent Crimean Tatars). As of June 1986 there were 23 Union-republican ministries and 14 state committees, and 6 republican ministries and 1 republican state committee. All of the political power and authority in the USSR was in the hands of Communist Party authorities, with little real power being concentrated in official government bodies an… With the formation of the USSR, it joined the USSR as a Union republic on Dec. 30,1922. A communist state proclaimed by the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Kharkiv on 24–25 December 1917 and established through armed aggression against the Ukrainian National Republic by Soviet Russia and local Bolshevik forces in 1917–20 (see Ukrainian-Soviet War, 1917–21). By the end of the 1940s Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense had been abolished. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. In s… Born in 1978 in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member state of the former Soviet Union, she came to the United States in 2000 and became a citizen in 2006, according to the Indianapolis Star.Her personal past became part of her politics. Name. Their members were selected through indirect elections, in which a worker’s vote was worth more than a peasant’s, and some citizens had no vote at all. The borders of the Ukrainian SSR did not encompass the entire Ukrainian ethnic territory, which is one-quarter larger (750,200 sq km) than the national territory and contains 16 percent more people (60 million). Prewar history. The government institutions of the Ukrainian SSR were copies of the Russian institutions, and Ukrainian legislation merely echoed Russian laws. While 14 republics were almost always denoted by their national name – e.g Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) – there was one exception. During the revolutionary period the Bolsheviks set up, on 25 December 1917, the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Ukraine as the government of Soviet Ukraine and formed, on 17 December, the People's Secretariat (headed by Yukhym Medvediev and then Mykola Skrypnyk). Die Sowjetukraine, 1944–1963 (Köln–Berlin 1964)Potichnyj, P. (ed). Ukraine: From Chernobyl’ to Sovereignty (Edmonton 1992)Kuzio, T. 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