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| State motto: Пралетарыі ўсіх краін, яднайцеся! | |||||
| Official language | None.
(According to the constitution, all languages were equal. However, Russian was supposed to be the language of international communication, thus putting Belarusian at a disadvantage.) | ||||
| Capital | Minsk | ||||
| Chairman of the Supreme Council | Stanislav Shushkevich (at independence) | ||||
| Area - Total - % water | Ranked 6th in former Soviet Union 207,600 kmē -- | ||||
| Population | Ranked 5th in the former Soviet Union
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| Currency | Ruble1998 Russian Federation one rouble coin. Heads (right) and tails (left) 1898 Russian Empire one rouble bill. 1898 Russian Empire one rouble bill. The ruble ( Russian French-derived transliteration rouble is the name of the currency of the Russian Federati (рубель) | ||||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | UTC + 3 | ||||
| Anthem | Anthem of Byelorussian SSRThe Anthem of Byelorussian SSR was the national anthem of the Byelorussian SSR until 1991. The melody is composed by Nestar Sakalowski , and the lyrics are by Mihas' Klimovich . The melody is currently used as national anthem of Belarus'. Byelorussian : , | ||||
The Byelorussian SSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; Russian Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Belarusian Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка) was one of the four original founding members of the U.S.S.R.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 in 1922Events January 7 Dali Eireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. January 10 Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dail Eireann January 11 First successful insulin treatment of diabetes. January 12 British government releases Irish prisoners, together with Ukrainian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR.
The republic was in the west part of the USSR and its capital was Minsk. The Byelorussian SSR was created on January 1 1919.
Area: 207,6 kmē
Population: 8,897,000 (1969)
Nationality (1959):
Other larger cities:
After the Second World War Belarus was given a seat in the United Nations General Assembly together with the U.S.S.R. and Ukraine, so Belarus became one of the founding members of the UN. The republic became independent in 1991 as the Republic of Belarus.