The pact also ceded to them portions of Romania known as Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina and this new territory, called Moldova, became the 15th Soviet Socialist Republic.

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was the trusty rearguard of the USSR both in peacetime and in war. It was here that the country's industrial potential was cultivated, nuclear weapons were ...

The group announced its creation in March, saying it promotes "our independence and sovereignty" and "the unbreakable territorial integrity of the sovereign Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ...

In Kazakhstan and the other central Asian republics that were formed, a process of “korenizatsiia,” or indigenisation, took root. The idea was that those from these oppressed nationalities should rise ...

Soviet Union (or USSR — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) — A country made up of Russia and neighboring "Socialist Republics" with a capital in Moscow.

Nazarbayev, the final ruler of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, oversaw the country’s independence from the dissolving Soviet Union in 1991 and ruled until his surprise resignation in 2019.

The conversion of a Soviet-era cinema into the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture by British architect Asif Khan is underway in Kazakhstan. Set to open in the city of Almaty in April, the ...

The conversion of a Soviet-era cinema into the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture by British architect Asif Khan is underway in Kazakhstan.