abstract:An Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) of the Soviet Union (, ) was a type of administrative units created for certain nations. The ASSRs had a status lower than the union republics of the Soviet Union, but higher than the autonomous oblasts and the autonomous okrugs.
After the 14 non-Russian republicsofthe old SovietUnion went their ways, Russia was left with more than a score ofautonomous ethnically named regions and republics.