The Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР) (USSR), was a country located within much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.
Mostly temperate to arctic continental; winters vary from cool along Black Sea to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from hot in southern deserts to cool along Arctic coast.
Behind a red background, in the top left in just yellow, lives a five-pointed star, under this is a hammer and sickle - a communist symbol that represents unity between workers and peasants.
There is no emoji for this flag;
🇷🇺 exists, but this is for Russia.
When being given a country code top-level domain name, the Soviet
Union was to get a .ussr domain, but after Petri Ojala, a
19-year-old Finnish student, suggested .su, this is what
stuck.
As introduced on 1990-09-19 - .su is the name of the
country code top-level domain for the USSR (https://example.su) - despite this, 15
months later the formal dissolution (1991-12-26) took place. Even after
this, it is possible for Russians to buy a .su domain name
(as well as .ru and .рф), with, as of 2025,
111,695 registered domains.
Some or all of the text was taken from the CIA World Factbook (source), a work by the federal government of the the United States - all work by the US government lacks copyright.
Due to this using text that was written by the US government, please be aware that might not only be US-centric, but also have a pro-USA agenda.
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