| Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Горно-Алтайская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика | |||||||||
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| ASSR of the Russian SFSR Republic of the Russian Federation | |||||||||
| 1990–1992 | |||||||||
.svg) Location of Gorno-Altai ASSR within RFSFR | |||||||||
| Capital | Gorno-Altaysk | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 25 October 1990 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 31 March 1992 | ||||||||
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The Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Gorno-Altai ASSR; Russian: Горно-Алтайская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Gorno-Altayskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union.[1] It was formed on 1 June 1922 as the Oyrot Autonomous Region and became the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast on 7 January 1948. It was upgraded to the level of Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on 25 October 1990, and was declared a Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 July 1991, although it was not recognised as one.[2] It became the Altai Republic on 31 March 1992. Its capital was Gorno-Altaysk.[2] Agriculture is the main occupation for most of the inhabitants.[3] Like the modern Altai Republic, the Gorno-Altai ASSR shared its international border with the People's Republic of China.
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and some of the other republics also contained administrative subdivisions with boundaries drawn according to nationality or language. The three kinds of such subdivisions included twenty autonomous republics, eight autonomous oblasts, and ten autonomous okruga.[4]
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- ^ a b "Russian S.F.S.R. Administrative Divisions". Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ "Altai Assistance Project - About the Altai". Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Soviet Union: A Country Study. Federal Research Division.
