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I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Boris Spassky

Meaning of "USSR" in the English dictionary

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WHAT DOES USSR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

USSR

Soviet Union

For details on the succession of states see below. Soviet Union This article is part of a series on the politics and government of the Soviet Union Leadership ▪ Leaders ▪ President ▪ ▪ Collective leadership ▪ State Council ▪ Presidential Council Communist Party ▪ Congress ▪ Central Committee ▪ History General Secretary ▪ Politburo ▪ Secretariat ▪ Orgburo Legislature ▪ Congress of Soviets Supreme Soviet ▪ Soviet of the Union ▪ Soviet of Nationalities ▪ Presidium Congress of People's Deputies ▪ ▪ Speaker ▪ 1989 Legislative election Governance Constitution ▪ 1924 ▪ 1936 ▪ 1977 Government ▪ Ministries ▪ State Committees ▪ Executive Officer Premiership ▪ Cabinets ▪ Council of People's Commissars ▪ Council of Ministers ▪ Cabinet of Ministers Judiciary...

Definition of USSR in the English dictionary

The definition of USSR in the dictionary is Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE USSR

USM
Usman dan Fodio
USMC
USN
Usnach
usnea
Usnech
USO
USP
Uspallata Pass
USPHS
USPO
USPS
usquabae
usque
usquebaugh
USS
Ussher
Ussuri
Ust Urt

WORDS THAT END LIKE USSR

ASSR
CSR
ESR
GSR
RSFSR
SSR

Synonyms and antonyms of USSR in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «USSR» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF USSR

Find out the translation of USSR to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of USSR from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «USSR» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

苏联
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

URSS
570 millions of speakers

English

USSR
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सोवियत संघ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اتحاد الجمهوريات الاشتراكية السوفياتية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

СССР
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

URSS
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইউএসএসআর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

URSS
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

USSR
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

UdSSR
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ソ連
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소련
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

USSR
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Liên Xô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சோவியத் ஒன்றியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

यूएसएसआर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

SSCB
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

URSS
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ZSRR
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

СРСР
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

URSS
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ΕΣΣΔ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

USSR
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

USSR
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

USSR
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of USSR

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «USSR»

The term «USSR» is very widely used and occupies the 18.941 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of USSR
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «USSR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «USSR» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «USSR» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about USSR

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7 QUOTES WITH «USSR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word USSR.
1
Earl Browder
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
2
Zbigniew Brzezinski
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
3
Janeane Garofalo
The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.
4
Natan Sharansky
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
5
Natan Sharansky
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
6
Boris Spassky
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
7
Boris Spassky
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «USSR»

Discover the use of USSR in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to USSR and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The USSR Olympiad Problem Book: Selected Problems and ...
Over 300 challenging problems in algebra, arithmetic, elementary number theory and trigonometry, selected from Mathematical Olympiads held at Moscow University.
Давид Оскарович Шклярский, Николай Николаевич Ченцов, I. M. Yaglom, 1993
2
USSR: From an Original Idea by Karl Marx
'In 1986 USSR was a prescient, hilarious and inspirational take on the evil empire. For Soviet totalitarianism ridicule was a deadly foe. To Polonsky and Taylor, the thanks of all those who were once captive and are now free.
Russell Taylor, Marc Polonsky, 2011
3
Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991
Written by one of America's most distinguished specialists on the former Soviet Union, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Gorbachev period and the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Jerry F. Hough, 1997
4
The End of Empire?: The Transformation of the USSR in ...
This volume assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the Soviet empire in the context of Tsarist, Hapsburg, Ottoman, British, French and German precedents.
Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott, 1997
5
Russia and the USSR, 1855-1991: Autocracy and Dictatorship
From a renowned name in A Level history publishing, this is a Questions and Analysis title on a major period in Russian History.
Stephen J. Lee, 2006
6
Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the ...
Until recent times, incidents of mass unrest in the USSR were shrouded in offical secrecy. Now this pioneering work by historian Vladimir A. Kozlov has opened up these hidden chapters of Soviet history.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozlov, Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon, 2002
7
Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953
Explores the cultural and ethnic aspects of the early Soviet era, focusing on the way the Bolsheviks and other groups used language.
Michael G. Smith, 1998
8
Space Race: The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Competition to Reach the Moon
In compelling photographs and terse, informed text, this book tells the story of time when the superpowers sought to make the heavens inseparable from the earth.
Martin J. Collins, 1999
9
Jewish Life After the USSR
Jewish Life after the USSR is the first book to study post-Soviet Jewry in depth.
Zvi Y. Gitelman, Musya Glants, Marshall I. Goldman, 2003
10
The Family in the USSR
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rudolf Schlesinger, 1949

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «USSR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term USSR is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Central European Forests Are Regrowing After the Breakup of the …
Well, a study published in 2013 in Global Change Biology found that abandoned farmlands in the parts of the former USSR that are now Russia have been ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
2
PHOTO: Fidel Castro, wearing two Rolexes, lighting a cigar while …
This photo from Castro's 40-day visit to the USSR features Khrushchev and a bunch of Soviets smiling while Castro, wearing two Rolex watches, lights up a ... «Business Insider Australia, Jun 15»
3
Russians weigh Gorbachev reforms that sank USSR 30 years on
Moscow (AFP) - A few months after the politburo chose him as Soviet supremo in early 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev halted his cortege in downtown Leningrad for ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
4
​​Merkel listens as Putin defends USSR's pact with Nazi Germany
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Germany's chancellor, Russia's president defended the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which the USSR signed with Nazi ... «Kyiv Post, May 15»
5
Russia goes back to USSR but still fails to win
MOSCOW - Russia's national ice hockey team went back to the USSR by donning the famous jersey of the legendary Soviet squad but failed to recapture past ... «Bangkok Post, Apr 15»
6
The Olympic Venues of the USSR, 35 Years Later
The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were controversial. While its war in Afghanistan had sparked a global boycott of the games, the USSR also wanted to ... «Gizmodo, Feb 15»
7
Kim Philby 'tipped off USSR' as FBI closed in on nuclear physicist
More than 60 years ago, a prominent nuclear physicist in Britain, Canada and America shocked the world by defecting to the USSR. Disappearing without trace ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
8
From USSR best buds to NHL enemies: How politics divided 2 ex …
2 offers so much more about the relationship with Kasatonov, about his own singularly heroic effort to break out of the USSR, in this film that is painstakingly ... «New York Post, Jan 15»
9
The collapse of the USSR left behind a haunting post-apocalyptic …
These photographs by Rebecca Litchfield make it seem as if the apocalypse has come and gone and the world is in complete ruins. Not quite. They're actually ... «Gizmodo, Sep 14»
10
Russian MPs seek to sue Gorbachev over USSR collapse
They also noted that in November 1991 the Prosecutor General's Office of the USSR commenced a criminal case against President Mikhail Gorbachev, but ... «RT, Apr 14»

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