The Adyghe Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR Adygea) was an administrative-territorial unit of the Soviet Union, which existed from October 5, 1990 to March 23, 1992. The capital was the city of Maykop.
History
- On October 5, 1990, an extraordinary session of the Adyghe Regional Council of People's Deputies adopted a decision to raise the state legal status of the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast to the level of a republic, and proclaimed the Adyghe Soviet Socialist Republic.
- On December 15, 1990, the separation of Adygea from Krasnodar Krai was legalized by the Second Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR, which amended the Constitution of the RSFSR to remove autonomous oblasts from the krais of which they were a part.
- On June 28, 1991, the fifth session of the Regional Council of People's Deputies adopted the "Declaration on State Sovereignty of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Adygea".
- On July 3, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR adopted the Law of the RSFSR "On the transformation of the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast into the Soviet Socialist Republic of Adygea within the RSFSR" and submitted an amendment to the Russian Constitution transforming the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast into the Soviet Socialist Republic of Adygea within the RSFSR. This amendment was submitted for consideration to the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR.
- In December 1991 â January 1992, elections of deputies to the Supreme Soviet of Adygea took place.
- In January 1992, Aslan Dzharimov was elected President of the republic.
- On March 23, 1992, the Supreme Soviet of Adygea adopted a law renaming the SSR Adygea to the Republic of Adygea (Adygea).
- On April 21, 1992, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation adopted an amendment to the Constitution of the RSFSR, which transformed the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast into the Republic of Adygea. The amendment entered into force upon publication on May 16, 1992, in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".
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