Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

  • Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească Nistreană (Romanian)
    Moldovan Cyrillic: Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ

  • Приднестровская Молдавская Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian)
    Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika

  • Придністровська Молдавська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка (Ukrainian)
    Prydnistrovs'ka Moldavs'ka Radians'ka Sotsialistychna Respublika
1990–1991
Motto: "Workers of the world, unite!"
Romanian: Proletari din toate țările, uniți-vă!
Пролетарь дин тоате цэриле, уници-вэ! (Moldovan Cyrillic)
Russian: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!, romanizedProletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes'!
Ukrainian: Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся!, romanizedProletari vsikh krayin, ednaytesya!
Anthem: none until 2000
Location of Transnistria
CapitalTiraspol
Common languages
GovernmentUnitary Marxist–Leninist soviet republic
Chairman 
• 1990–1991
Igor Smirnov (at independence)
LegislatureSupreme Soviet
Establishment2 September 1990
History 
• Independence from the Moldavian SSR declared
2 September 1990
• Independence from the Soviet Union declared
25 August 1991
• Succeeded by Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
5 November 1991
• Disestablished
1991
• Start of the Transnistria War
2 March 1992
CurrencySoviet ruble (SUR)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Moldavian SSR
Transnistria
Today part ofMoldova (de jure) Transnistria (de facto)

The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic[a] (PMSSR), also commonly known as Soviet Transnistria or simply as Transnistria, was created on the eastern periphery of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) in 1990 by pro-Soviet separatists who hoped to remain within the Soviet Union when it became clear that the MSSR would achieve independence from the USSR and possibly unite with Romania. The PMSSR was never recognised as a Soviet republic by the authorities in either Moscow or Chișinău. In 1991, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic succeeded the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.[1]


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  1. ^ The Supreme Soviet changed the official name of the republic from Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic on 5 November 1991. See: "Postanovlenie verkhovnogo soveta Pridnestrovskoi Moldavskoi Respubliki ob izmenenii nazvaniia respubliki," Dnestrovskaia pravda, 6 November 1991, 1.