The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Автономияле Совет Социалистик Республикасы), abbreviated as Tatar ASSR (russian: Татарская АССР; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан АССР) or TASSR (russian: ТАССР; tt-Cyrl, ТАССР) (1920–1990), was an
autonomous republic
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of the
Russian SFSR. The resolution for its creation was signed on 27 May 1920 and the republic was proclaimed on 25 June 1920.
served as its capital.
The territory of the TASSR was a part of
Kazan,
Simbirsk
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The city, founded as Simbirsk (), w ...
, and
Ufa Governorates (''
guberniyas'') of the
Imperial Russia
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before the
October Revolution of 1917.
*1920: Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
*1990: Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
*1992:
Republic of Tatarstan
Notable people
*
Gabdulkhay Akhatov - professor and
Turkologist
*
Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, link=no , tt-Cyrl, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established ...
- composer
*
Chulpan Khamatova - film, theater and TV actress
*
Mintimer Shaimiev - politician, the first secretary of the
Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU
*
Boris Yeltsin - first Russian president (1991-1999)
*
Ravil Maganov - chairman of
Lukoil
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(2020-2022)
*
Valery Gerasimov - Incumbent Russian
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List
* Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (United States)
* Chief of the General Staff (Abkhazia)
* Chief of General Staff (Af ...
See also
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1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan
The 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan was a period of mass starvation and drought that took place in the Tatar ASSR as a result of the Russian Civil War, in which 500,000 to 2,000,000 peasants died. The event was part of the greater Russian famine ...
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Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
*
First Secretary of the Tatarstan Communist Party
References
Autonomous republics of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
History of Tatarstan
States and territories established in 1920
Former socialist republics
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