State · 1917 – 1991
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
A state of 1917 – 1991 — 74 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Russian Republic, South Russia and Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and followed Far Eastern Republic. It was replaced by Russia and followed by Soviet Union and Soviet Republic of Naissaar. The atlas records 29 things within it — wars and battles 9 · unrest and atrocity 3 · treaties 1 · people 16. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 74 years
- 1917 – 1991
- Rulers
- 3
- the President of Russia
- Most ground
- 22.17 million km²
- in 1917
- Within it
- 29
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 6
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Russian Republic · replaces · 1917
- Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic · replaces
- South Russia · replaces · 1919 – 1920
- Far Eastern Republic · follows · 1920 – 1922
After it
- Soviet Union · followed by · 1923 – 1991
- Russia · replaced by · 1991 – present
- Soviet Republic of Naissaar · followed by
Rulers
The line of President of Russia - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lev Kamenev | 1917 – 1917 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Boris Yeltsin | 1991 – 1999 | 8 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Viktor Chernomyrdin | 1996 – 1996 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1917 – 1999. Median reign 0 years. 2 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of head of government, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Georgy Lvov | 1917 – 1917 |
| Alexander Kerensky | 1917 – 1917 |
| Vladimir Lenin | 1922 – 1924 |
| Alexei Rykov | 1924 – 1929 |
| Sergei Syrtsov | 1929 – 1930 |
| Daniil Sulimov | 1930 – 1937 |
| Nikolai Bulganin | 1937 – 1938 |
| Vasily Vakhrushev | 1939 – 1940 |
| Ivan Khokhlov | 1940 – 1943 |
| Alexei Kosygin | 1943 – 1949 |
| Boris Chernousov | 1949 – 1952 |
| Alexander Puzanov | 1952 – 1956 |
| Mikhail Yasnov | 1956 – 1957 |
| Frol Kozlov | 1957 – 1958 |
| Dmitry Polyansky | 1958 – 1962 |
| Gennady Voronov | 1962 – 1971 |
| Mikhail Solomentsev | 1971 – 1983 |
| Vitaly Vorotnikov | 1983 – 1988 |
| Alexander Vlasov | 1988 – 1990 |
| Ivan Silayev | 1990 – 1991 |
| Boris Yeltsin | 1991 – 1992 |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
22.17 million km² in 1917. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, 1918 – 1937Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918–1925) · Public domain %2C_Emblem_of_the_Russian_Federation_(1991%E2%80%931992).svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_(1978%E2%80%931991)%2C_Emblem_of_the_Russian_Federation_(1991%E2%80%931992).svg.png)
coat of arms, from 1918Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1978–1991), Emblem of the Russian Federation (1991–1992) · Public domain .svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_(1920%E2%80%931954).svg.png)
coat of arms, 1920 – 1954Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1920–1954) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_(1937%E2%80%931954).svg.png)
flag, 1937 – 1954Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937–1954) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_(1954%E2%80%931991).svg.png)
flag, 1954 – 1991Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1954–1991) · Public domain .svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_(1954%E2%80%931978).svg.png)
coat of arms, 1954 – 1978Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1954–1978) · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199928 rows · 9 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · writer · 1918 – 2008
- Mikhail Kalashnikov · scientist · 1919 – 2013
- Murder of the Romanov family · atrocity · 1918
- Ukrainian War of Independence · war · 1917 – 1921
- Chung Il-kwon · politician · 1917 – 1994
- Yakov Pavlov · politician · 1917 – 1981
- Ukrainian–Soviet War · war · 1917 – 1921
- Siberian intervention · battle · 1918 – 1920
and 20 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood74 years
stood longer than 41% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held22,169,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 100% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median0 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 1% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 39 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1907 – 2001, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1917, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2184 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.