List of autonomous areas of the Soviet Union

Autonomous regions ( Russian Автономная область , Awtonomnaja oblast ', abbreviated AO) offered smaller peoples limited cultural autonomy within the Union Republics of the USSR. In theory, the autonomous regions were states .

Russian SFSR

• Adygea Autonomous Oblast , see Adygea
• Circassian Autonomous Oblast , see Karachay-Cherkessia
• Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• Altai Autonomous Oblast , see Altai Republic
• Karachay-Cherkessia Autonomous Oblast , see Karachay-Cherkessia
• Khakassian Autonomous Oblast , see Khakassia
• Tuva Autonomous Oblast , see Tuva

Georgian SSR

• South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast , see South Ossetia

Azerbaijani SSR

• Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast

Tajik SSR

• Autonomous Oblast Berg-Badachschan , see Berg-Badachschan

Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic

• Polish Autonomous Oblast of Dzierzynszczyzna

Ukrainian SSR

• Polish Autonomous Region of Marchlewszczyzna

literature

• Andreas Heinemann-Grüder : Federal Autonomy in Russia and in the CIS . Ed .: Center for Applied Political Research on Individual Responsibility and Autonomy of the Regions. February 2002 ( lmu.de [PDF]).
• Jochen Franzke: Empire under the red banner: Considerations for the end of the Soviet Union . In: WeltTrends: Journal for International Politics and Comparative Studies . The Subject: The Disintegration of Empires, No. 6 . Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 1995 ( kobv.de [PDF]).