North Asia.
Five of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union border the Caspian Sea. These are Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan. The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water in the world and plays a significant role in the geopolitics of the region.
The nations under the umbrella of the USSR were known as the Soviet republics. These included 15 republics, such as Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, among others. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, these republics became independent nations. Collectively, they are sometimes referred to as the post-Soviet states.
The country that used to be called the Soviet Union is now known as Russia. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it split into 15 independent republics, with Russia being the largest and most prominent successor state. Other former Soviet republics include Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states, among others.
Russia has not been divided. The Soviet Union (1922-1991) has 15 Soviet republics. After Soviet Union destroy all 15 republics became independent Countries: Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Krgizstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan.
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.
Ukraine was in USSR not in Russia!!! Russia was not independet until the break-up of USSR! that is when all the 15 republics became independent states, including UKRAINE and RUSSIA!
Current (as of the end of 1991) world maps have the Russian Federation labeled as Russia. Russia was one of 15 constituent republics (now 15 independent nations) making up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1922 to 1991. The Russian Federation during this time was the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Kazakhstan
Russia was not divided into separate republics when the Soviet Union was first formed. The Soviet Union was formed when Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Federation (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) banded together to form the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union then added more and more republics. In 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved into 15 separate republics.
There is no Soviet Union since it's disintegrated in 1991. 15 republics of former Soviet Union are now independent countries. The biggest of those republics is Russia.
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
He was born in Sevsk in Russia on January 15, 1901 and died in Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on January 15, 1973 (aged 71).