USSR

See also: U. S. S. R. and U.S.S.R.

English

Alternative forms

U. S. S. R., U.S.S.R.

Pronunciation

enPR: yo͞o′ĕs-ĕs-är′
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌjuː.ɛs.ɛsˈɑː/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌju.ɛs.ɛsˈɑɹ/
Audio (US): (file)
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌjʉː.es.esˈɐː/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌjʉ.ɛs.ɛsˈaɹ/
(India) IPA^(key): /ˌjuː.ɛs.ɛsˈaːʳ/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Proper noun

USSR or the USSR

(historical) A former transcontinental country in Europe and Asia (1922–1991), now split into Russia and 14 other countries; the Soviet Union; in full, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Synonyms: CCCP, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; (loosely) Russia

Meronyms: SSR, SFSR
(uncommon) Initialism of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Related terms

Translations

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: BRSS
Arabic: الْاِتِّحَاد السُّوفْيَاتِيّ (ar) m (al-ittiḥād al-suvyātiyy)
Armenian: ՍՍՀՄ (hy) (SSHM), ԽՍՀՄ (hy) (XSHM)
Azerbaijani: SSRİ
Cyrillic: ССРИ
Basque: SESB (eu)
Belarusian: СССР m (SSSR)
Bengali: সোভিয়েত ইউনিয়ন (bn) (śōbhiẏet iuniẏon)
Bulgarian: СССР (bg) m (SSSR)
Burmese: ဆိုဗီယက်ယူနီယံ (hcuibiyak-yuniyam)
Catalan: URSS (ca) f
Chechen: СССР (SSSR), ССРС (SSRS)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蘇聯 / 苏联 (sou¹ lyun⁴)

Mandarin: 蘇聯 / 苏联 (zh) (Sūlián)
Chuvash: СССР (SSSR)
Corsican: URSS f
Czech: SSSR (cs) m
Danish: USSR, SSSR
Dutch: USSR f
Esperanto: USSR
Estonian: NSVL
Finnish: SNTL (fi), NL (fi)
French: URSS (fr) f
Galician: URSS (gl) f
Georgian: სსრკ (ka) (ssrḳ)
German: UdSSR (de) f
Greek: ΕΣΣΔ (el) f (ESSD)
Hebrew: בְּרִית הַמּוֹעֲצוֹת (he) f (brit ha-mu'atsot), ברה״מ (Br.HM)
Hindi: सोवियत संघ (soviyat saṅgh), सोवियत यूनियन (soviyat yūniyan)
Hungarian: SZSZKSZ (hu)
Icelandic: Sovétríkin
Indonesian: Uni Soviet
Ingush: СССР (SSSR)
Interlingua: URSS
Irish: APSS
Japanese: ソ連 (ja) (それん, Soren)
Kazakh: КСРО (KSRO)
Khmer: ស.ស.ស.ស (S.S.S.S.), សហភាពសូវៀត (sahapʰiep sooviet)
Korean: 소련(蘇聯) (ko) (Soryeon), 쏘련(蘇聯) (ko) (Ssoryeon)
Kyrgyz: ССРС (SSRS), КСРБ (KSRB)
Lao: ສະຫະພາບໂຊວຽດ (sa ha phāp st)
Latvian: PSRS
Lezgi: ССРГ (SSRG)
Lithuanian: TSRS (lt)
Macedonian: СССР (mk) m (SSSR)
Manx: UPSS
Norman: URSS f (Jersey)
Norwegian: Sovjetunionen, USSR, SSSR
Ossetian: ССРЦ (SSRC)
Persian: اتحاد شوروی (ettehâd-e šuravi)
Polish: ZSRR (pl) m inan
Portuguese: URSS (pt) f
Romanian: URSS f
Cyrillic: УРСС f (URSS)
Russian: СССР (ru) m (SSSR)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: СССР m

Latin: SSSR m
Slovak: ZSSR (sk) m
Slovene: ZSSR (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: ZSSR m
Spanish: URSS (es) f
Swedish: USSR (sv)
Tajik: Иттиҳоди Шӯравӣ (tg) (Ittihod-i Šüravi)
Tatar: СССР m (SSSR)
Thai: สหภาพโซเวียต (sà-hà-pâap-soo-wîiat)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: SSCB (tr)
Turkmen: SSRS
Cyrillic: ССРС
Tuvan: ССРЭ (SSRE)
Ukrainian: СРСР (uk) m (SRSR)
Uzbek: SSRI
Cyrillic: ССРИ (SSRI)
Vietnamese: Liên Xô (vi)
Yakut: ССРС (SSRS)
Yiddish: ראַטןפֿאַרבאַנד m (ratnfarband)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Czech: USSR (cs) f
Georgian: უსსრ (ussr)
German: USSR f
Polish: USRR f
Portuguese: RSSU f
Russian: УССР (ru) f (USSR)
Ukrainian: УРСР f (URSR), УСРР f (USRR) (before 30th January 1937)

Anagrams

Russ, Russ., SRUs

Dutch

Proper noun

USSR f

(historical) USSR (a former transcontinental country in Europe and Asia (1922–1991), now split into Russia and 14 other countries; the Soviet Union; in full, Unie van Socialistische Sovjetrepublieken)

German

Proper noun

USSR f (proper noun, genitive USSR)

initialism of Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik (“Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic”)

Declension

Declension of USSR [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	USSR
genitive	einer	der	USSR
dative	einer	der	USSR
accusative	eine	die	USSR

Synonyms

(alternative initialism) UkrSSR
Sowjetukraine, Sowjet-Ukraine (“Soviet Ukraine”)