Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика  (Russian) Татарстан Автономияле Совет Социалистик Республикасы  (Tatar)
Autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR
1920–1990
Flag Coat of arms
Tatarstan within the borders of today's Russian Federation
Capital	Kazan
History
• Established	1920
• Disestablished	1990
Succeeded by Tatarstan

The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; Tatar: Татарстан Автономияле Совет Социалистик Республикасы), abbreviated as Tatar ASSR (Russian: Татарская АССР; Tatar: Татарстан АССР) or TASSR (Russian: ТАССР; Tatar: ТАССР) (1920–1990) was part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was created on May 27, 1920. Kazan served as its capital.

The territory of the TASSR was a part of Kazan, Simbirsk, and Ufa Governorates (guberniyas) of the Imperial Russia before the October Revolution of 1917.

• 1920: Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1990: Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1992: Republic of Tatarstan

Notable people

• Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927-1986) - professor, a member of the Soviet Committee turkologists, world-renowned scientist in the field of Turkology
• Sofia Gubaidulina - composer
• Mintimer Shaimiev - politician, the first secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU

See also

• 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan
• Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
• First Secretary of the Tatarstan Communist Party