Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Туркестанская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика | |||||||||||||||||
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ASSR of the Russian SFSR | |||||||||||||||||
1918–1924 | |||||||||||||||||
Map of Soviet Central Asia in 1922, indicating the location and extent of the Turkestan ASSR (brown). | |||||||||||||||||
Capital | Tashkent | ||||||||||||||||
Historical era | Interwar era | ||||||||||||||||
• Established | 30 April 1918 | ||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 27 October 1924 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Туркестанская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Turkestanskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika; Uzbek: Turkiston Avtonom Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasi), originally called the Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic, was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic located in Soviet Central Asia which existed between 1918 and 1924. Uzbeks were the preeminent nation of the Turkestan ASSR. Tashkent was the capital and largest city in the region.