The Karakalpak

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic An Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR, russian: автономная советская социалистическая республика, АССР) was a type of administrative unit in the Soviet Union (USSR) created for certain nat ...

(Karakalpak ASSR; Karakalpak: Қарақалпақстан АССР, ''Qaraqalpaqstan ASSR''; uz, Қорақалпоғистон АССР, Qoraqalpog‘iston ASSR; russian: Каракалпакская АССР, ''Karakalpakskaya ASSR'') also known as Soviet Karakalpakstan or simply Karakalpakstan was an autonomous republic of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. Until 20 July 1932, it was called the Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast. On 5 December 1936, it was merged with the

Uzbek SSR Uzbekistan (, ) is the common English language, English name for the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR; uz, Ўзбекистон Совет Социалистик Республикаси, Oʻzbekiston Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasi, ...

. It was the only ASSR in

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 ...

(though other ASSRs existed in the region prior to the Karakalpak ASSR's creation, such as the

Tajik ASSR The Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik ASSR) (russian: Таджикская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика) was an autonomous republic within the Uzbek SSR in the Sovi ...

and the Kirghiz ASSR, both of which were "upgraded" to union-level republics in 1929 and 1936 respectively). Its capital was

Nukus Nukus ( kaa, Nókis / ; uz, Nukus / ; kk, Нүкіс / ) is the sixth-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of the autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan. The population of Nukus as of January 1, 2022 was 329,100. The Amu Darya river passes ...

(until 1939, Turtkul). On 14 December 1990, Karakalpak ASSR declared state sovereignty over the Soviet laws.

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

declared independence on 31 August 1991 after the events of the failed coup while Karakalpak ASSR was renamed to and re-established as the

Republic of Karakalpakstan Karakalpakstan, / officially the Republic of Karakalpakstan, / is an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan. It occupies the whole northwestern part of Uzbekistan. The capital is Nukus (' / ). The Republic of Karakalpakstan has an area of , and ...

on 21 December 1991. The Soviet Union was dissolved on 26 December 1991. The new constitution was adopted on 8 December 1992, thus making Karakalpakstan as an

autonomous In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy, from , ''autonomos'', from αὐτο- ''auto-'' "self" and νόμος ''nomos'', "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's ...

republic within Uzbekistan.

Demographics

;Demographic change and ethnic composition of the population of Karakalpakstan according to the data of the 1926-1989 censuses

Flags

File:Flag of Karakalpak ASSR (1934-1937).svg, 1934-1937 File:Flag of Karakalpak ASSR (1937-1941).gif, 1937-1941 File:Flag of Karakalpak ASSR (1941-1952).gif, 1941-1952 File:Flag of Karakalpak ASSR.svg, 1952-1991

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States and territories established in 1932 Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Former socialist republics 1932 establishments in the Soviet Union 1992 disestablishments in Uzbekistan {{USSR-stub

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