Soviet Union (USSR). Information.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, abbreviated USSR
 was a socialist state that existed from 1922 to 1991.

Square     - 22,402,200 km2.
Population - 293,047,571 (July 1991).
Capital    - Moscow

The USSR was created and expanded as a union of Soviet republics formed within the territory of the Russian Empire abolished by the Russian Revolution of 1917 followed by the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. The geographic boundaries of the Soviet Union varied with time, but since 1945 and until dissolution they approximately corresponded to those of late Imperial Russia, with the notable exclusions of Poland and Finland.

The Soviet Union, founded three decades before the Cold War, became a primary model for future Communist states; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, and today a collection of states commonly dubbed as "the former Soviet Union" are aligned only through a loose organization known as the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Currency : 1 rouble = 100 kopeck.

Full information about stamps of Soviet Union you can find on site: home.nestor.minsk.by

See also:


Russia	Ukraine	Belarus	Kazakhstan	Moldova

Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	Azerbaijan	Armenia

Georgia	Kyrgyzstan	Uzbekistan	Turkmenistan	Tadjikistan