Supreme Soviet of Russia

Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation


Верховный Совет РСФСР
Верховный Совет Российской Федерации
Coat of arms before (left) and after (right) the dissolution of the Soviet Union
Type
Type
Supreme Council
ChambersSoviet of Nationalities
Soviet of the Republic
History
Established15 July 1938
Disbanded4 October 1993
Preceded byAll-Russian Congress of Soviets
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1991)
Succeeded byConstitutional Conference of Russia
Federal Assembly of Russia
Leadership
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet
Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities
Chairman of the Soviet of Republic
Veniamin Sokolov
SeatsDynamic (1 deputy per 150,000 citizens) (1938–1978)
975 (1978–1990)
252 (1990–1993)
Elections
Last general election
16 May–22 June 1990
First session of the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia (indirect)*
Meeting place
White House
Footnotes
^ Last direct general elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR were held in 1985. Powers of that Supreme Soviet (XI convocation) had expired in May 1990 (just some months after passage of the 1989 constitutional amendments)
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The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR,[c] later the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation,[d] was the supreme government institution of the Russian SFSR from 1938 to 1990; between 1990 and 1993, it was a permanent legislature (parliament), elected by the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation.[1]

The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR was established to be similar in structure to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1938, replacing the All-Russian Congress of Soviets as the highest organ of power of Russia.

In the 1940s, the Supreme Soviet Presidium and the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR were located in the former mansion of counts Osterman (3 Delegatskaya Street),[2][3] which was later in 1991 given to a museum. The sessions were held in Grand Kremlin Palace. In 1981 the Supreme Soviet was moved to a specially constructed building on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, The House of Soviets.

The Supreme Soviet was abolished in October 1993 (after the events of Russia's 1993 constitutional crisis) and replaced by the Federal Assembly of Russia (consists of the Federation Council of Russia and State Duma).


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  1. ^

    Article 107. Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation is an agency of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation and a permanently functioning legislative, administrative, and supervisory agency of state power of the Russian Federation

    Article 107 of the Russian Constitution of 1978 (with amendments of 1989-1992), also partially available in English
  2. ^ "Building History". All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts.
  3. ^ Дом Остермана [Osterman House]. All-Russian Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Art (in Russian). Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2010.