Supreme Soviet of Russia

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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 Unicameral (until 1990) Bicameral (from 1990)
Chambers	Soviet of Nationalities Soviet of the Republic
History
Established	15 July 1938
Disbanded	4 October 1993
Preceded by	All-Russian Congress of Soviets Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1991)
Succeeded by	Constitutional Conference of Russia Federal Assembly of Russia
Leadership
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet	Ruslan Khasbulatov (last)
Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities	Ramazan Abdulatipov
Chairman of the Soviet of Republic	Veniamin Sokolov
Seats	Dynamic (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)

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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