Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Two different Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics within the Russian Federative Socialist Soviet Republic (RSFSR) were designated as the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1920s and 1930s :

• The first Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the RSFSR was founded on August 26, 1920 and comprised the northern and central parts of what is now Kazakhstan . After the ASSR Turkestan was dissolved , today's southern Kazakhstan and Karakalpakistan, which is now part of Uzbekistan , were annexed to it. The capital was Orenburg . In April 1925 it was renamed the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . With the constitution of 1936 on December 5, 1936, this (excluding Karakalpakistan) became an independent Union republic of the Soviet Union , the Kazakh SSR, separate from the RSFSR .

• The second Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic corresponded to today's Kyrgyzstan . After the dissolution of the ASSR Turkestan on October 14, 1924, it was initially founded as the Kara-Kyrgyz Autonomous Region within the RSFSR and on February 1, 1926 it was reorganized into the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . On December 5, 1936, this became an independent Union republic of the Soviet Union, the Kyrgyz SSR, separated from the RSFSR .

The fact that two different territories within the Soviet Union had the same name one after the other is due to the change in the meaning of the words Kyrgyz and Kyrgyz in official ( Russian ) language usage. At the beginning of the Soviet period, the Kazakhs were called Kirghiz (Киргизы / Kirgisy ) and the actual Kyrgyz as Kara-Kirghiz (Кара-Киргизы / Kara-Kirgis ; Turkish-speaking for "Black Kirghiz") in accordance with the usual Russian language usage . From the mid-1920s, however, the name Kazakhs (Каза́хи / Kasachy ) corresponding to their self-designation Qasaq was introduced in Russian for the Kazakhs , while the prefix Kara was omitted for the Kyrgyz . The names of the political territories have been changed accordingly.