Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
| Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Кабардино-Балкарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian) Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Автоном Совет Социал Республикэ (Kabardian) Къабарты-Малкъар Автоном Совет Социалист Республика (Karachay-Balkar) | |||||||||
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| ASSR of the Russian SFSR Republic of the Russian Federation | |||||||||
| 1936–1992 | |||||||||
Location of Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR within Russian SFSR | |||||||||
| Capital | Nalchik | ||||||||
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| • Type | Soviet republic | ||||||||
| • Motto | Къэрал псоми я пролетархэ, фызэгухъэ! (Kabardian) Битеу къыралланы пролетарлары, бирлешигиз! (Karachay-Balkar) "Workers of the world, unite!" | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 5 December 1936 | ||||||||
| 8 April 1944 | |||||||||
• Name restored | 11 February 1957 | ||||||||
• Sovereignty declared (Renamed to the Kabardino-Balkarian SSR) | 31 January 1991 | ||||||||
• Renamed to the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic | 16 May 1992 | ||||||||
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The Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union, and was originally a part of the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On 16 January 1922 the region was detached from the Mountain ASSR and the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Oblast on 1 September 1921. It became an autonomous republic on 5 December 1936. On 30 January 1991, the Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR declared state sovereignty. It is now the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. The Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR bordered no other sovereign states during the existence of the Soviet Union.
Like the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR was shared by two nationalities. Both autonomous republics resided as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and featured Russians as the ethnic majority.