The Byelorussian SSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; Russian Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Belarusian Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка) was one of the four original founding members of the U.S.S.R. in 1922, together with Ukrainian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR.
The republic was in the west part of the USSR and its capital was Minsk. The Byelorussian SSR was created on January 1, Belarusians - 81%
After the Second World War Belarus was given a seat in the United NationsUkraine, so Belarus became one of the founding members of the UN. The republic became independent in Belarus.
Belorussian is an East Slavic language, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
Except for certain small areas allocated to Poland, the 1939 political boundaries of the BelorussianSSR were confirmed by the terms of the treaty between Poland and the USSR in 1945.
In January 2000 the Belorussian currency was redenominated, with 1,000 old roubles replaced with one new rouble; this had followed the introduction of 1 million and 5 million rouble notes the previous year.
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