The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The USSR was the whole thing, including Russia. Kazakhstan was the next largest after Russia.
Russia was by far the largest of the republics.
The largest religious group in Russia and the western former Soviet republics are Orthodox Christians.
North Asia.
Russia was the largest republic in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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All the countries that used to be part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly referred to as "Russia" in the United States because Russia was the largest and most populated of the republics.
Of the fifteen Soviet republics eventually declared their independence
1991 The USSR did not "turn into Russia." The USSR was a collection of many separate republics into one nation much like the United States is a collection of individual states into one nation. In 1991, the USSR broke up into 15 separate nations one of which was the Russian Federation.
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All fifteen declared themselves independent in 1991.
There were 15 republics in the Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia ( Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (see Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (Moldova), Russia, Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan