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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика
← 1917 — 1991 →
Flag Coat of arms
State motto: Russian: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! Translation: Workers of the world, unite!
Capital	Moscow
Official language	Russian
Established In the USSR:  - Since  - Until	November 7, 1917 December 30, 1922 December 12, 1991 (independence)
Area  - Total  - Water (%)	Ranked 1st in the USSR 17,075,200 km² 13%
Population  - Total   - Density	Ranked 1st in the USSR 147,386,000 8.6/km²
Currency	rouble (рубль)
Time zone	UTC + 2 to + 11 (modern Russia is + 3 to + 12)
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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic or Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (Росси́йская Сове́тская Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, РСФСР, Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Soviet republics, and became the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It was by far the largest sub-national entity in the world by area and 2nd in population then and ever, after Uttar Pradesh, India. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Sichuan, China became the 2nd most populous subnational entity until 1997 when it was divided up.

Main article: History of the Soviet Union

The RSFSR was established on November 7, 1917, and on July 10, 1918 the 1918 Constitution was accepted. It became part of the Soviet Union in 1922, an act formalised by the 1924 Soviet Constitution. It was only internationally recognized by one state, the Irish Republic. In English, the term Bolshevist Russia is commonly used for the period 1917–1922. In Russian official documents of the time it was referred to as Russian Republic (Российская республика, Rossiyskaya respublika) and Soviet Republic (Советская республика, Sovetskaya respublika).

The country was run by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, its most recent title. Its capital was Moscow, also the capital of the Soviet Union.

Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1955. It was only internationally recognized by one state, the Irish Republic.

Main article: History of post-Soviet Russia

The RSFSR ceased to be a part of the Soviet Union on December 12, 1991, fourteen days before the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It was renamed the Russian Federation under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin, in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) until 1993.

RSFSR and later the Russian Federation have been widely accepted as the Soviet Union's successor state in diplomatic affairs and it has assumed the USSR's permanent membership and veto in the UN Security Council.

• Bashkir ASSR
• Buryat ASSR
• Dagestan ASSR
• Yakut ASSR
• Kabardino-Balkar ASSR
• Kalmyk ASSR
• Karelian ASSR
• Komi ASSR
• Mari ASSR
• Mordovian ASSR
• Northern Ossetian ASSR
• Udmurt ASSR
• Tatar ASSR
• Chechen-Ingush ASSR
• Chuvash ASSR
• Tuva ASSR

• (Russian) Full Texts and All Laws Amending Constitutions of the Russian SFSR

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Eastern Europe	Byelorussian SSR  ·  Moldavian SSR  ·  Russian SFSR  ·  Ukrainian SSR
Central Asia	Kazakh SSR  ·  Kyrgyz SSR  ·  Tajik SSR  ·  Turkmen SSR  ·  Uzbek SSR
Transcaucasia	Armenian SSR  ·  Azerbaijan SSR  ·  Georgian SSR
The Baltics	Estonian SSR  ·  Latvian SSR  ·  Lithuanian SSR
Short-lived Soviet Republics	Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (1918)  · Odessa Soviet Republic (1918)  · Alsace Soviet Republic (1918)  · Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919)  · Slovak Soviet Republic (1919)  · Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)  · Galician SSR (1920)  · Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (1918–1920)  · Persian Socialist Soviet Republic (1920-1921)  · Abkhazian SSR (1921-1931)  ·  Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936)  · Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956)