The Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (
Russian
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: Верховный Совет Карело-Финской ССР
tr. ''Verkhovnyy Sovet Karelo-Finskoy SSR'') was the
supreme soviet
The Supreme Soviet (russian: Верховный Совет, Verkhovny Sovet, Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ...
(main
legislative institution) of the
Karelo-Finnish SSR. The Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was established in June 1940 when the third session of the First Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the
Karelian ASSR
The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( rus, Каре́льская Автоно́мная Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, r=Karelskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respub ...
adopted the law of transforming the
Karelian ASSR
The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( rus, Каре́льская Автоно́мная Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, r=Karelskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respub ...
into the
Karelo-Finnish SSR. The first elections of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR took place on June 16, 1940 and the first session of the first convocation took place on November 8, 1940. The Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was disbanded in August of 1956 when the
Karelo-Finnish SSR was demoted to an
autonomous soviet socialist republic
An Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR, russian: автономная советская социалистическая республика, АССР) was a type of administrative unit in the Soviet Union (USSR) created for certain natio ...
on July 16, 1956.
Convocations
* 1st Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1947)
* 2nd Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1947-1951)
* 3rd Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1951-1955)
* 4th Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1955-1956)
Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet
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Nikolai Sorokin
Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин; February 15, 1952 – March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999). He was a ...
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Adolf Taimi
Adolf Pietarinpoika Taimi (21 September 1881 – 1 November 1955) was a Finnish-Soviet Bolshevik and a member of the People's Delegation during the Finnish Civil War. After the civil war Taimi fled to Soviet Russia where he was one of the found ...
, 1947
, 1955
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Ivan Sogiyainen
, 1955
, 1956
See also
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Supreme Soviet
The Supreme Soviet (russian: Верховный Совет, Verkhovny Sovet, Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ...
*
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
References
Historical legislatures
1940 establishments in the Soviet Union
1956 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
Defunct unicameral legislatures
Karelo-Finnish