Russia is the largest republic which emerged from the former Soviet Union; which is the second largest?
History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union The German minority in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union was created from several sources and in several waves. The 1914 census put the number of Germans living in the Russian Empire at 2,416,290. In 1989, the German population of the Soviet Union was roughly 2 million. By 2002, the population fell by half to roughly one million. 597,212 Germans were enumerated in Russia (2002 Russian census), making Germans the fifth largest ethnic group in that country. There were 353,441 Germans in Kazakhstan and 21,472 in Kyrgyzstan (1999); while 33,300
National delimitation in the Soviet Union of Russia. The Soviet Union (or more formally USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was established in 1922 as a federation of nationalities, which eventually came to encompass 15 major national territories, each organized as a Union-level republic (Soviet Socialist Republic or SSR). All 15 national republics, created between 1917 and 1940, had constitutionally equal rights and equal standing in the formal structure of state power. The largest of the 15 republics – Russia – was ethnically the most diverse and from the very beginning it was constituted as the RSFSR – the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,