Soviet of Nationalities

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Soviet of Nationalities Совет Национальностей
Legislative body in the Soviet Union
Type
Type	Upper house of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
History
Established	1938
Disbanded	21 October 1991
Preceded by	Congress of Soviets
Succeeded by	Soviet of the Republics [ru] (in USSR) Soviet of Nationalities (in Russia) CIS Interparliamentary Assembly
Leadership
Chairman	Rafik Nishanov (last)
Structure
Political groups	Composition after the 1984 election:   Communist Party of the Soviet Union (521)   Independents (229)
Elections
Voting system	Direct elections (until 1989) Elected by the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR (from 1989)
Last election	1984 Soviet Union legislative election
Meeting place
Kremlin Presidium, Moscow Kremlin

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The Soviet of Nationalities^[a] was the upper chamber of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, elected on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage in accordance with the principles of Soviet democracy. Until democratization in the late-1980s, however, only a single candidate nominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was permitted to stand for election in each constituency. It was briefly succeeded by the Soviet of the Republics from October to December 1991. As opposed to the Soviet of the Union, the Soviet of Nationalities was composed of the nationalities of the Soviet Union, which in turn followed administrative division rather than being a representation of ethnic groups.
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