Russian territories and republics - historical overview

Here is a summary of the russian allied territories, republics and occupation areas;

• Location
• government
• area
• population
• capitol
• summary

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[ ARMENIA ][ AZERBAIJAN ][ BATUM ][ FAR EASTERN REPUBLIC ][ GEORGIA ][ SOUTH RUSSIA ][TANNU TOUVA ]
[ TRANSCAUCASIAN FEDERATED REPUBLIC ][UKRAINE][ WESTERN UKRAINE ]

ARMENIA

Facts:

According to the Russian laws, the post was the monopoly of the State and no other analogous organization was allowed. The Zemstvo Post, on the contrary, was considered as carrying on the work of the State Post in the localities where there was none, but not as competing with it, and thus its organization and its activity was not interfered with. The first Zemstvo-Post has been opened in the Vetluga district of the government of Kostroma; at first, it had no stamps; it was in the Shlisselburg district of the gov. of S.-Petersburg, where a Zemstvo post-office has been opened in Sept. 1865, that they appeared for the first time.

AZERBAIJAN

Facts:

With Azerbaijan and Georgia, Armenia made up the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics.
Stamps of Armenia were replaced in 1923 by those Transcaucasian Federated Republics.
With the breakup of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, Armenia and ten former Soviet republics established the Commonwealth of independent States.

BATUM

Facts

Batum is the capitol of Adzhar, a territory which, in 1921, became an autonomus republic of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Stamps of Batum were issued under the administration of British forces which occupied Batum and environs between December, 1918, and July, 1920, following the treaty of Versailles.

FAR EASTERN REPUBLIC

Facts:

A short-lived independent government was established here in 1920.

GEORGIA

Facts:

Georgia was formerly a province of the Russian Empire and later part of the Transcaucasian Federation of the Soviet Republics.
Stamps of Georgia were replaced in 1923 by those of Transcaucasian Federated Republics.

SOUTH RUSSIA

Facts:

A provisional government set up and maintained by General Denikin in opposition to the Bolshevik forces in Russia following the downfall of the Empire.
The stamps were used in the field postal service established for carrying on communication between the various armies united in the revolt.
These armies included the Don Cossacks, the Kuban Cossacks, and also the neighboring southern Russian people in favor of the counter-revolution against the Bolsheviks.

TANNU TUVA

Facts:

The status of Tuva was settled by treaty between the USSR and the newly independent Mongolia.
Mongolia thought Tuva was part of Mongolia (so did the Tuvans, actually), but Russia wanted it otherwise --- and the price of Russian support against China for Mongolian independence (without which an independent Mongolia would never have survived) was that they give up their claim to Tuva. When Tuva was absorbed by the USSR, it became part of the RSFSR.
Thus later it became part of the Russian Federation, of which it is one of the constituent republics (the Republic of Tuva, or Tyva RepubliKa).
(with thanks to Alan Leighton)

TRANSCAUCASIAN FEDERATED REPUBLIC

(Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)

The Transcaucasian Federation was made up the former autonomies of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Its stamps were replaced by those of Russia.

UKRAINE

Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, a national assembly met at Kiev and formed the Ukrainian National republic.
On July 6, 1923, the Ukraine joined the Soviet Union and since that time the postage stamps of the Soviet Union have been in use.
With the breakup of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, Ukraine and ten former Soviet Republics established the Commonwealth of Independent states.

WESTERN UKRAINE

A provisional government was established in 1918 in the eastern part of Austria-Hungary but the area later came under Polish administration.