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Byelorussian SSR

The Byelorussian SSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; Russian Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Belarusian Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка) was one of the four original founding members of the U.S.S.R in 1922, together with Ukrainian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR.

The republic was in the west part of the USSR and its capital was Minsk. The Byelorussian SSR was created on January 1 1919.

Area: 207,6 km²
Population: 8,897,000 (1969)
Nationality (1959):

• Byelorussians - 81%
• Russians - 8,2%
• Poles - 6,7%
• Jews - 1,9%
• Ukrainians - 1,7%
• other

Other larger cities:

• Brest
• Homel (Gomel)
• Hrodna (Grodno)
• Mahilyow (Mahileu, Mogilev)
• Vitsebsk (Vitebsk)

After the Second World War Byelorussia was given a seat in the United Nations General Assembly together with the U.S.S.R. and Ukraine. The republic became independent in 1991 as the Republic of Belarus.

See also

• Republics of the Soviet Union

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