Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia
Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia
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| Status | Buffer state of Soviet Russia | ||||||||
| Demonyms | Belarusian, Byelorussian | ||||||||
| Government | Soviet republic | ||||||||
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• Established | 1 January 1919 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | February 1919 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Belarus | ||||||||
The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia (SSRB; Belarusian: Сацыялістычная Савецкая Рэспубліка Беларусь, romanized: Sacyjalistyčnaja Savieckaja Respublika Biełaruś; Russian: Социалистическая Советская Республика Белоруссия / ССРБ, romanized: Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika Belorussiya / SSRB) was a short-lived soviet republic, that existed in the territory of Belarus from the end of December 1918 to the middle of February 1919, centered in Minsk. It was created in Belarusian regions of the Western Oblast, and was later merged into the Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia.