Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as Tatar ASSR, Tatarstan ASSR or TASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. The resolution for its creation was signed on 27 May 1920 and the republic was proclaimed on 25 June 1920. Kazan served as its capital.

The territory of the TASSR was a part of Kazan, Simbirsk, and Ufa Governorates (or gubernias) of the Imperial Russia before the October Revolution of 1917.

• 27 May 1920: Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
• 30 August 1990: Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
• 16 May 1992: Republic of Tatarstan

Notable people

• Gabdulkhay Akhatov – professor and Turkologist
• Sofia Gubaidulina – composer
• Chulpan Khamatova – film, theater and TV actress
• Mintimer Shaimiev – politician, the first secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU
• Boris Yeltsin – first Russian president (1991–1999)
• Röstäm Yaxin – composer
• Ravil Maganov – chairman of Lukoil (2020–2022)
• Valery Gerasimov – incumbent Russian Chief of General Staff

See also

• 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan
• Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
• Tatarstan Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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