The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
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Казахская Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian) Қазақ Советтік Социалистік Республикасы (Kazakh) |
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Motto "Барлық елдердің пролетарлары, бірігіңдер!" "Proletarians of all countries, unite!" |
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Anthem "Қазақ Советтік Социалистік Республикасінің мемлекеттік гимні" "State Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic" |
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 Location of Kazakhstan (red) within the Soviet Union.
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| Capital | Alma-Ata | |||||||||
| Languages |
Official languages: Kazakh · Russian Minority languages: Uzbek · Uyghur · Tatar · Kyrgyz · Azerbaijani · Korean |
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| Demonym |
Kazakh Soviet |
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| Government |
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party soviet republic (1936-1990) Unitary Marxist-Leninist presidential republic (1990-1991) |
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| First Secretary | ||||||||||
| • | 1936–1938 | Levon Mirzoyan | ||||||||
| • | 1989–1991 | Nursultan Nazarbayev | ||||||||
| Head of government | ||||||||||
| • | 1946–1954 | Nurtas Undasynov | ||||||||
| • | 1989–1991 | Uzakbay Karamanov | ||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | Elevation to an Union Republic | 5 December 1936 | ||||||||
| • | Jeltoqsan riots | 16 December 1986 | ||||||||
| • | Sovereignty declared | 25 October 1990 | ||||||||
| • | Renamed Republic of Kazakhstan | 10 December 1991 | ||||||||
| • | Independence declared | 16 December 1991 | ||||||||
| • | Independence recognized | 26 December 1991 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1990 | 2,717,300 km2 (1,049,200 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1990 est. | 16,711,900 | ||||||||
| Density | 6/km2 (16/sq mi) | |||||||||
| Calling code | +7 31/32/330/33622 | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Kazakhstan
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The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the transcontinental constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1936-1991 in northern Central Asia. It was created on December 5, 1936 from the Kazakh ASSR, an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR.
At 2,717,300 square kilometres (1,049,200 sq mi) in area, it was the second-largest republic in the USSR, after the Russian SFSR. Its capital was Alma-Ata (today known as Almaty). Today it is the independent nation of Kazakhstan in Central Asia. During its existence as a Soviet Socialist Republic, it was ruled by the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.
On October 25, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR declared its sovereignty on its soil. Nursultan Nazarbayev was elected as president – a role he has remained in to the present day.
The Kazakh SSR was renamed the Republic of Kazakhstan on December 10, 1991, which declared its independence six days later, as the last republic to leave the USSR on December 16, 1991. The Soviet Union was disbanded on December 26, 1991 by the Soviet of Nationalities. The Republic of Kazakhstan, the legal successor to the Kazakh SSR, was admitted to the United Nations on March 2, 1992.
The country is named after the Kazakh people, Turkic-speaking former nomads who sustained a powerful khanate in the region before Russian and later Soviet domination. The Soviet Union's spaceport, now known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome, was located in this republic at Tyuratam, and the secret town of Leninsk (now known as Baikonur) was constructed to accommodate its personnel.
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