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Ucraina (URSS : Repubblica Socialista Sovietica) CercaDefinizione
Constituent republic of the USSR.
Capital city: Khar'kov (until 1934); Kiev (from 1934)
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was bordered to the west and southwest by Romania and Poland, to the northwest by the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and to the northeast and east by the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
The Ukrainian Soviet Republic was first proclaimed in Khar'kov in December 1917 to confront the trend of Ukrainian secession from the newly created Soviet state. From 1918 to 1920, the Ukrainian Republic hung in the balance as an independent state, waging internal and external wars for its existence. In December 1919 Bolshevik troops assumed control of most of the Ukrainian territory, and by November 1920 the Bolsheviks established Soviet rule in Ukraine. In December 1922 Ukraine became one of the four Soviet constituent republics to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In the aftermath of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact of August 1939, Ukraine gained former Polish and Romanian territories, i.e. eastern Galicia, Bukovina, and part of Bessarabia.
Before these border changes, Ukraine consisted of eight administrative units: Kiev, Chernigov, Khar'kov, Stalino (Donetsk), Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Vinnitsa, and the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Ukrainian territory was occupied by German troops during World War II, and the Final Solution was fully implemented. The most notorious massacre of the Jewish population occurred in Kiev at Babii Yar. Soviet partisans offered active resistance to Germans. Ukrainian nationalists took a variety of positions: pro- and anti-German, and consistently anti-Soviet.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Ukraine became an independent state.
The Ukraine was one of the major coal, steel, heavy machinery, and chemicals producer in the former USSR. (en-US)
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Karta Ukraiinskoii Radianskoii Sotsialistychnoi Respublikiy Administryvna 1:2,000.000. Vydannia Administratyvno -Teritorialnoi Grupy Orgviddilu C.U.K. U.R.S.R. Administratyvni Mezhi na 15 Cichnia, 1937. [Reproduced at Library of Congress Map Division].
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- L'vovo (Ucraina, URSS)
- Liusdorf (Ucraina, URSS)
- Mogilev-Podol'skii (Ucraina, URSS : campo di concentramento)
- Odessa (Ucraina, URSS)
- Rudnitsa (Ucraina, URSS)
- Tropova (Ucraina, URSS : ghetto)