- Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
(Petroskoi).
The first incarnation of the Karelian A.S.S.R. existed from 1923 until 1940. It was a territory within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
From 1940 to 1956, territory annexed from Finland was incorporated with the previous Karelian Autonomous Republic to form the
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic , which had the status of aunion republic in the federal structure of the Soviet Union. Only about 10% of the population of this region was of Karelian or Finnish ethnic background.Fact|date=February 2007On 16 July 1956, Karelia (sometimes spelled Carelia) was downgraded from a Union Republic to an A.S.S.R., and retroceded to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
In
Soviet Union , the status of Autonomous SSR was considered lower than the status of SSR, although nominally both stood forSoviet Socialist Republic .Administration
Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
*
Aleksandr Vasilevich Shotman (June 25 ,1923 -1924 )
*Aleksandr Fyodorovich (December 1924 -May 1928 )
*Nikolay Aleksandrovich Yushchyev (January 1929 -January 13 ,1934 )
*Vasiliy Petrovich Averkyev (January 13 ,1934 -1935 )
*Nikolay Vasilyevich Arkhipov (February 1935 -November 1937 )
*Mark Vasilyevich Gorbachev (November 1937 -March 31 ,1940 )
*Pavel Stepanovich Prokkonen (July 16 ,1956 -July 18 ,1979 )
*N. Kalinin (acting) (July 18 ,1979 -August 18 ,1979 )
*Ivan Pavlovich Mankin (August 18 ,1979 -March 9 ,1984 )
*N. Kalinin (acting) (March 9 ,1984 -April 18 ,1984 )
*Ivan Ilyich Senkin (April 18 ,1984 -December 12 ,1985 )
*V. Cheremovsky (acting) (December 12 ,1985 -January 21 ,1986 )
*Kuzma Filippovich Filatov (January 21 ,1986 -December 27 ,1989 )
*Viktor Nikolayevich Stepanov (December 27 ,1989 -April 18 ,1990 )
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