USSR

See also: U. S. S. R. and U.S.S.R.

English

Alternative forms

• U. S. S. R., U.S.S.R.

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo͞o′ĕs-ĕs-är′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌjuː.ɛs.ɛsˈɑː/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌju.ɛs.ɛsˈɑɹ/

  Audio (US):

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌjʉː.es.esˈɐː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌjʉ.ɛs.ɛsˈaɹ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌjuː.ɛs.ɛsˈaːʳ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Proper noun

USSR or the USSR

2. (historical) A former transcontinental country in Europe and Asia (1922–1991), now split into Russia and 14 other countries; the Soviet Union; in full, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

   Synonyms: CCCP, SSSR, SU, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; (loosely) Russia

   Meronyms: SSR, SFSR

4. (uncommon) Initialism of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Related terms

• ASSR
• SSR

Translations

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: BRSS
• Arabic: الْاِتِّحَاد السُّوفْيَاتِيّ (ar) m (al-ittiḥād al-suvyātiyy)
• Armenian: ՍՍՀՄ (hy) (SSHM), ԽՍՀՄ (hy) (XSHM)
• Azerbaijani: SSRİ

  Cyrillic: ССРИ

• Basque: SESB (eu)
• Belarusian: СССР m (SSSR)
• Bengali: সোভিয়েত ইউনিয়ন (bn) (śōbhiẏet iuniẏon)
• Bulgarian: СССР (bg) m (SSSR)
• Burmese: ဆိုဗီယက်ယူနီယံ (hcuibiyak-yuniyam)
• Catalan: URSS (ca) f
• Chechen: СССР (SSSR), ССРС (SSRS)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蘇聯 / 苏联 (sou¹ lyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 蘇聯 / 苏联 (zh) (Sūlián)

• Chuvash: СССР (SSSR)
• Corsican: URSS f
• Czech: SSSR (cs) m
• Danish: USSR, SSSR
• Dutch: USSR f
• Esperanto: USSR
• Estonian: NSVL
• Finnish: SNTL (fi), NL (fi)
• French: URSS (fr) f
• Galician: URSS (gl) f
• Georgian: სსრკ (ka) (ssrḳ)
• German: UdSSR (de) f
• Greek: ΕΣΣΔ (el) f (ESSD)
• Hebrew: בְּרִית הַמּוֹעֲצוֹת (he) f (brit ha-mu'atsot), ברה״מ (Br.HM)
• Hindi: सोवियत संघ (soviyat saṅgh), सोवियत यूनियन (soviyat yūniyan)
• Hungarian: SZSZKSZ (hu)
• Icelandic: Sovétríkin
• Indonesian: Uni Soviet
• Ingush: СССР (SSSR)
• Interlingua: URSS
• Irish: APSS
• Japanese: ソ連 (ja) (それん, Soren)
• Kazakh: КСРО (KSRO)
• Khmer: ស.ស.ស.ស (S.S.S.S.), សហភាពសូវៀត (sahapʰiep sooviet)
• Korean: 소련(蘇聯) (ko) (Soryeon), 쏘련(蘇聯) (ko) (Ssoryeon)
• Kyrgyz: ССРС (SSRS), КСРБ (KSRB)
• Lao: ສະຫະພາບໂຊວຽດ (sa ha phāp st)
• Latvian: PSRS
• Lezgi: ССРГ (SSRG)
• Lithuanian: TSRS (lt)
• Macedonian: СССР (mk) m (SSSR)
• Manx: UPSS
• Norman: URSS f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: Sovjetunionen, USSR, SSSR
• Ossetian: ССРЦ (SSRC)
• Persian: اتحاد شوروی (ettehâd-e šuravi)
• Polish: ZSRR (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: URSS (pt) f
• Romanian: URSS f

  Cyrillic: УРСС f (URSS)

• Russian: СССР (ru) m (SSSR)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: СССР m

  Latin: SSSR m

• Slovak: ZSSR (sk) m
• Slovene: ZSSR (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: ZSSR m

• Spanish: URSS (es) f
• Swedish: USSR (sv)
• Tajik: Иттиҳоди Шӯравӣ (tg) (Ittihod-i Šüravi)
• Tatar: СССР m (SSSR)
• Thai: สหภาพโซเวียต (sà-hà-pâap-soo-wîiat)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: SSCB (tr)
• Turkmen: SSRS

  Cyrillic: ССРС

• Tuvan: ССРЭ (SSRE)
• Ukrainian: СРСР (uk) m (SRSR), СССР m (SSSR)
• Uzbek: SSRI

  Cyrillic: ССРИ (SSRI)

• Vietnamese: Liên Xô (vi)
• Yakut: ССРС (SSRS)
• Yiddish: ראַטןפֿאַרבאַנד m (ratnfarband)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

• Czech: USSR (cs) f
• Georgian: უსსრ (ussr)
• German: USSR (de) f
• Polish: USRR f
• Portuguese: RSSU f
• Russian: УССР (ru) f (USSR)
• Ukrainian: УРСР f (URSR), УСРР f (USRR) (before 30th January 1937)

See also

• Category:en:Republics of the Soviet Union

Anagrams

• Russ, Russ., SRUs

Dutch

Proper noun

USSR f

2. (historical) USSR (a former transcontinental country in Europe and Asia (1922–1991), now split into Russia and 14 other countries; the Soviet Union; in full, Unie van Socialistische Sovjetrepublieken)

German

Proper noun

USSR f (proper noun, genitive USSR)

2. initialism of Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik (“Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic”)

Declension

Declension of USSR [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	USSR
genitive	einer	der	USSR
dative	einer	der	USSR
accusative	eine	die	USSR

Synonyms

• (alternative initialism) UkrSSR
• Sowjetukraine, Sowjet-Ukraine (“Soviet Ukraine”)