URSS Aviation Yellow Bordered Red Star

URSS is an alternative spelling of

USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. In other languages, it stands for ''Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas'' (

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

), ''Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques'' (

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

), ''Unyon ng mga Republikang Sosyalistang Sobyet'' ( Filipino), ''Uni Republik Sosialis Soviet'' (

Indonesian Indonesian is anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It may refer to: * Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia ** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago ** Indonesian ...

), ''Unione delle Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche'' (

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

), ''União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas'' ( Portuguese), ''Uniunea Republicilor Sovietice Socialiste'' (

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

), ''Unió de Repúbliques Socialistes Soviètiques'' ( Catalan), among others. Within the Soviet Union itself, ''URSS'' was the preferred Latin-script abbreviation for the country until

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, when it was replaced with ''USSR''. URSS may also refer to: *

Editorial URSS Editorial URSS is a Russian scientific literature publishing house (textbooks, monographs, journals, proceedings of Russian institutes and universities, etc.). Since 1995, Editorial URSS has issued more than 9000 items in Russian, Spanish, and E ...

, a Russian scientific publishing house *

Amicii URSS ''Amicii URSS'' ( Romanian for " heFriends of the Soviet Union"; , occasionally known as ''Prietenii URSS'' (), which carries the same meaning) was a cultural association in interwar Romania, uniting left-wing and anti-fascist intellectuals who ad ...

, literary Romanian for " heFriends of the Soviet Union" * ''Concerts en URSS'', a 1983 album by electronic band

Space Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless ...

* The ICAO airport code for

Adler-Sochi International Airport Sochi International Airport (; ) is an international airport located in the Adler District of the resort city of Sochi, on the coast of the Black Sea in the federal subject of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Sochi International Airport is among the ten ...

in Russia {{disambig Etymology