The Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (russian: Киргизская АССР, ky, Кыргыз автономная Советтик Социалисттик Республикасы) was an autonomous republic of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

within the

Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

existing from 1926 until 1936. The Kirghiz ASSR was created on 11 February 1926 in the former region of

Soviet Central Asia Soviet Central Asia (russian: link=no, Советская Средняя Азия, Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared ind ...

, within the

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

, when Kirghiz AO was reorganized as ASSR. On 5 December 1936 it became elevated to

Kirghiz SSR The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR; ky, Кыргыз Советтик Социалисттик Республикасы, Kyrgyz Sovettik Sotsialisttik Respublikasy, ky, Кыргыз ССР, Kyrgyz SSR, russian: Киргизск ...

(independent of Russian SFSR), one of the constituent republics of the

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Post–Russian Empire states Autonomous republics of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic States and territories established in 1926 Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Former socialist republics 1926 establishments in the Soviet Union 1936 disestablishments in the Soviet Union {{Soviet-stub de:Kirgisische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik#Entwicklung