Russian SFSR

Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика

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State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes'!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!)
Capital	Moscow
Official language	None; Russian (de facto)
Government	Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state
Last Chairman of the Supreme Council	Boris Yeltsin
Area  - Total  - % water	1st in former Soviet Union 17,075,200 km² 0.5%
Population  - Total  - Density	1st in former Soviet Union 147,386,000 8.6/km²
Establishment	November 7, 1917
Dissolution	December 12 1991
Currency	Soviet ruble
Time zone	UTC +2 to +11 (modern Russia is +3 to +12)
National anthems	The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) (help·info)

The Russian SFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic aka Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) (Росси́йская Сове́тская Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, РСФСР) was the largest and most populous of the fifteen former Soviet republics, and became the modern day Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The state was established on November 7, 1917. On July 10 1918 the 1918 Soviet Constitution was accepted. It was made into a part of the Soviet Union in 1922, an act later formalised by the 1924 Soviet Constitution. In English, the term Bolshevist Russia is commonly used for the period 1917–1922. In Russian official documents of the time it was referred to as Russian Republic (Российская республика) and Soviet Republic (Советская республика).

The country was run by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (most recent title). Its capital was Moscow, also the capital of the Soviet Union.

Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1955.

Russian SFSR ceased to be a part of the USSR on December 12 1991, 14 days before USSR ceased to exist. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the RSFSR rejected a socialist system and went through reforms. It was renamed as the Russian Federation under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), founded after the breakup of the USSR, loosely bound the former Soviet republics, except for Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Georgia (until 1993).

Political subdivisions

See also

• Soviet Union
• Russia