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Definition of: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The former federal union of 26 constituent republics of eastern Europe and northern Asia, extending from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, and east to the Pacific, dissolved into independent nations in 1991–1993; formerly Soviet Russia, Soviet Union.
—Abbr. U.S.S.R., USSR.
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