Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union, and was originally a part of the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On 16 January 1922 the region was detached from the Mountain ASSR and the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Oblast on 1 September 1921. It became an autonomous republic on 5 December 1936. On 30 January 1991, the Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR declared state sovereignty. It is now the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. The Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR bordered no other sovereign states during the existence of the Soviet Union.
| Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Кабардино-Балкарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian) Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Автоном Совет Социал Республикэ (Kabardian) Къабарты-Малкъар Автоном Совет Социалист Республика (Karachay-Balkar) | |||||||||
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| ASSR of the Russian SFSR | |||||||||
| 1936–1991 | |||||||||
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Location of Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR within Russian SFSR | |||||||||
| Capital | Nalchik | ||||||||
| • Type | Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1936 | ||||||||
| 1944 | |||||||||
• Name restored | 1957 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1991 | ||||||||
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Like the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR was shared by two nationalities. Both autonomous republics resided as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and featured Russians as the ethnic majority.