Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
| Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |||||||||
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| ASSR of the Russian SFSR Republic of the Russian Federation | |||||||||
| 1922–1992 | |||||||||
Map of Yakut ASSR (Green) within USSR (Dark Grey) | |||||||||
| Capital | Yakutsk | ||||||||
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| Government | |||||||||
| First Secretary | |||||||||
• 1920–1921 (first) | Maksim Ammosov | ||||||||
• 1982–1991 (last) | Yuri Prokopyev | ||||||||
| Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars | |||||||||
• 1923–1924 (first) | Isidor Barakhov | ||||||||
• 1923–1924 (last) | Kliment Ivanov | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 27 April 1922 | ||||||||
• Sovereignty declared (Renamed to the Yakut SSR) | 27 September 1990 | ||||||||
• Renamed to the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) | 21 April 1992 | ||||||||
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The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Якутская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Yakutskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika; Yakut: Саха автономнай сэбиэскэй социалистическэй республиката, romanized: Saxa avtonomnay sebieskey sotsialistiçeskey respublikata), also known as Soviet Sakha, Soviet Yakutia or the Yakut ASSR (Russian: Якутская АССР, Yakutskaya ASSR), was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union.