Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic

	Туркменская Советская Социалистическая Республика ; Түркменистан Совет Социалистик Республикасы
	Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
flag	coat of arms
Official language	officially none; de facto Turkmen and Russian
Capital	Poltorazk (named from 1927 Ashgabat )
surface	488,100 km²
population	3,522,700
Population density	7.2 inhabitants per km²
Time zone	UTC + 5

The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (abbreviation TuSSR ) was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from February 17, 1925 to 1991 .

development

Before its inception, in the countryside belonged Turkestan located what is now Turkmenistan to the Turkestan ASSR and to the people's republics Choresmien and Bukhara .

The Ukrainian Ivan Ivanovich Meshlauk became the first general secretary of the Turkmen SSR in 1928.

1985 Saparmyrat Nyýazow succeeded Muhammad Nazar Gapurow as chairman of the Communist Party (KP) of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. In January 1990 the Supreme Soviet elected him chairman, and two months later he was president of the Soviet republic.

In October 1990, the Turkmen SSR was the first Soviet republic of the Soviet Union to hold a popular election for its president. Saparmyrat Nyýazow - the only candidate - was elected.

The Main Inner Belt Asteroid (2584) Turkmenia was named after the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1991 it became independent as Turkmenistan .

population

Population development:

1913	1926	1939	1959	1966	1970	1973	1979	1987	1988 / 89	1991
1,042.00	998,000	1,252,000	1,516,000	1,914,000	2,159,000	2,364,000	2,765,000	3,361,000	3,534,000	3,576,000

General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR

Ivan Meshlauk (1925–1926)
Shajmardan Ibragimow (1926-1927)
Nikolai Paskutzki (1927–1928)
Grigori Aronshtam (1928–1930)
Jakow Popok (1930–1937)
Anna Muchammedowna (1937)
Jakow Tschubin (1937–1939)
Michail Fonin (1937–1947)
Shajah Batyrov (1947-1951)
Sukhan Babayev (1951-1958)
Juma Durdy Karajew (1958-1960)
Balisch Owesow (1960–1969)
Muchamednasar Gapurow (1969–1985)
Saparmurat Niyazov (1985–1991)

literature

Adrienne Lynn Edgar: Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-691-12799-6 .

Web links

Commons : Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Overview of the electoral system, elections and offices in the Turkmen SSR ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on 23 August 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1979 FG2. Discovered 1979 Mar. 23 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
↑ Copied from the Russian article ( ru: СССР ) The text was translated by me and the content of the table was slightly edited.
↑ The year of the census is controversial, as the Russian Wikipedia article stipulates 1989 and the article here suggests 1988 in a section.

[HU_Turkmenistan_Wahlen-1] Overview of the electoral system, elections and offices in the Turkmen SSR ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on 23 August 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1979 FG2. Discovered 1979 Mar. 23 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "

[3] Copied from the Russian article ( ru: СССР ) The text was translated by me and the content of the table was slightly edited.

[4] The year of the census is controversial, as the Russian Wikipedia article stipulates 1989 and the article here suggests 1988 in a section.