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Coat of arms of the Soviet Union.

WikiProject Soviet Union was created by Wikipedians to better organize information in articles related to the Soviet Union. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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WikiProject on Soviet Union

[edit] Scope

A lot of Wikipedia articles on the Soviet Union, aspects thereof, or its government are in a bad state. This project aims to improve the quality of all articles relating to the Soviet Union.

[edit] Parentage

• WikiProject Former Countries

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Russia

• WikiProject Armenia
• WikiProject Azerbaijan
• WikiProject Czech Republic
• WikiProject Estonia
• WikiProject Finland
• WikiProject Georgia
• WikiProject Latvia
• WikiProject Lithuania
• WikiProject Moldova
• WikiProject Poland
• WikiProject Slovakia
• WikiProject Ukraine

• WikiProject Central Asia
• WikiProject Caucasia

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

• Bezhin Meadow
• El Lissitzky
• Kengir uprising
• T-34
• T-26

[edit] Good articles

• Anastas Mikoyan
• Andrei Rublev (film)
• Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
• Solaris (1972 film)

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

• David Zolotarev - 1 July 2008
• Ivan Serov - 29 November 2007
• Yegor Ligachev - 24 November 2007
• Aleksandr Bakulev - 16 January 2007
• Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920- 15 January 2007
• Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division - 2 November 2006
• Battle of the Dnieper - 25 April 2006

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Portals on former Soviet states

[edit] Eastern Europe

• Portal:Russia
• Portal:Ukraine
• Portal:Belarus
• Portal:Moldova

[edit] Caucasus

• Portal:Armenia
• Portal:Azerbaijan
• Portal:Georgia

[edit] Baltics

• Portal:Latvia
• Portal:Lithuania
• Portal:Estonia

[edit] Central Asia

• Portal:Kazakhstan

[edit] Other related portals

• Portal:Cold War

[edit] Other related pages

• Commons:Soviet Union
• Commons:Category:Soviet Union
• Wikisource:Soviet Union
• Wiktionary:Soviet Union

[edit] Participants

1. User:Rubikonchik - all about Sofia Rotaru - your help is welcome!
2. Peoples_Red_Revolution Information and history concerning the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
3. FrancisTyers
4. User:SuperSonicUnleashed - I know a little bit of speaking Russian
5. MattOates
6. KNewman
7. Cmapm (usually accidental, i.e. unpredictable, edits of articles about the USSR and Soviet people; currently mostly expanding existing articles, creating relatively few new ones)
8. Humus sapiens where do I pay my dues?
9. abakharev OK, count me in
10. Dejan Čabrilo
11. 172 | Talk 20:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
12. mikka (t) 20:57, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
13. Michael Z.—mostly Ukrainian history and Soviet military, especially armoured fighting vehicles
14. Messhermit - Military and Political information about the Afghan-Soviet War and his main Characters.
15. DanCBJMS - if you need me in terms of broadcasting in the Soviet Union and also broadcasting post-1991, I have copies of the WRTH from the 1980s onwards (because I'm an SWL) in which I can translate into information in plain English. I also regularly scan sites such as TvRadioWorld.com and also use search engines such as MSN Search to find what I'm looking for. I contributed a lot of information to the Soviet television article, and I can't wait to do an article on the Soviet radio system, since they were parallel in every way. Daniel Blanchette 00:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
16. Super6Eight Military information mostly about WWII (The Great Patriotic War)
17. Explendido Rocha
18. Zach ^{(Smack Back)}
19. Solidusspriggan Specialties: the space race (especially Vostok program), the arms race (Rockets), soviet culture, as well as Lenin-era history and ideology(leninism).
20. Nightstallion (?) 07:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
21. Dudtz-Military history,Russian/Soviet Military,other Russian and Soviet related items.1/13/06 8:58 PM ET
22. User:Jayanthv86.i will contribute a lot about soviet technological advances especially in the field of aircraft and their foreign relations with south asian countries like india.
23. ^relative_energy 03:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
24. Tanzburg - Generalist but willing to help!! Specific knowledge on Soviet impact on the then Czechoslovakia.
25. Small Profit - I'm still learning myself, but I know a fair amount and I write good English; I'm willing to do menial editing work.
26. Mollsmolyneux
27. Mcspiff Good knowledge of the KGB/NKVD/etc, and the Red Army. Native english speaker so Im willing to edit whatever is needed (also willing to help people write articles over IM/email).
28. Jno russian/soviet aviation related things.
29. LWF Aircraft of the Soviet Union, and Russia, I will be adding more as I get more info.
30. Yeorin I'm no historian, but I can help clean up articles and typographical errors, and I have a general interest in the Soviet era. Count me in, if it's alright.
31. MILH
32. TSO1D I am mostly interested in military history, however I will try to contribute wherever something can be done.
33. Zhukov I can help you guys out with World War II stuff concerning the red army in soviet russia. I can also help with soviet economics. Count me in.
34. Aivazovsky
35. Speedboy Salesman Generally good on Stalin's era, pre-WWII, during WWII and post WWII. I write good English as well.
36. User:Mattt296 I Help
37. User:Phillipmorantking General politics and overall help
38. User:Nareklm
39. User:Adereterial Particular interest in early Soviet History, particularly Russian Revolution and Kronstadt Rebellion.
40. User:Count_de_Chagny Interested in Sino-Soviet Split and reasons of the collapse of the Soviet Union
41. User: Andrea graziosi Prof. Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian history in the XX century. Edition of archival sources.
42. User:Allen1861 Russian revolution, Russian/Soviet trade unions, Soviet politics 1920s-1930s, Old Bolsheviks.
43. User:Aerobird Defending the Air and Sea Frontiers of the Rodina!
44. User:VolatileChemical
45. Ilyushka88
46. Julian BH Interested in Soviet History
47. Ash Sultan
48. mqmpk (talk · contribs) History, Soviet era poets and literature, Great War
49. silpol
50. Trotboy (talk · contribs) Socialist & Trotskyist with a keen interest in the Soviet Union, particularly 1917-1937
51. Elfalem (talk · contribs)
52. blueorpheus
53. Harrypotter particularly interested in Soviet state formation through such things as Narkomnats
54. Yuriy Lapitskiy
55. SergeiXXX
56. lordevilvenom
57. Yeltsinfan I will do work on Yeltsin and Gorbachev
58. M.V.E.i.
59. Marshal Bagramyan, former Soviet-izen, I have a good-sized collection of first editions of useful Soviet sources (the Soviet Armenian language encyclopedia spanning 12 volumes, interesting magazines and journals); I'm currently a university student specializing in the field of Armenian/Oriental Studies and general Russian history, have authored an FA article on a Soviet field marshal (H. Bagramyan) and busy myself with debunking commonly held myths about the USSR and the reasons for its collapse
60. Digwuren 03:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
61. The Palatine. I've studied Soviet politics for four years, I've run a political simulation and I've made a diagram of Soviet political structure. My particular interest is Soviet politics.
62. Domino theory
63. Count me in AllenHansen (talk) 22:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
64. Koalorka - Firearms and fighting vehicles of the great socialist republic, pobieda!
65. Koshmar UK - I'm a British fluent Russian speaker/reader/writer with lots of experience in political, social and military knowledge of the USSR and Russia. I'm in if it means redressing the obvious anti-Soviet/Russian tone on Wiki. Badly overdue, this is necessary if this great site is to be taken seriously. (Own page to be edited soon, honest!)
66. Janisterzaj
67. Mack2 -- have contributed significantly to articles on Russification, Korenizatsiya, Education in the Soviet Union, as well as here and there to other articles. Special interests are nationalities, education, and population (demography) in the Soviet Union.--Mack2 (talk) 20:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
68. Pianist_ru — native russian speaker. I was born in USSR and live in Russia, I know a history of USSR. Abkhazian SSR is autonomus republic.
69. NuclearVacuum (talk · contribs) — I am an American who is very interested in the Cold War.
70. TFCforever - I'm happy to help in any way that I can.
71. HereFord 21:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
72. Æetlr Creejl 18:28, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
73. Beggarsbanquet Know a lot about a range of subjects within USSR history but especially the Revolution and its early history.
74. Kinpo I like all of Russian/Soviet history and I admire the Russian language and culture.
75. ЦИСГО
76. User:Adel.M.Radwan
77. User:Dimitree - particular interests: Soviet/Russian aviation, Aeroflot... Fluently speak Ru, En, Fr, Sp, It...
78. User:Ericdn
79. Im a Socialist! What Are You Soviet war in Afghanistan
80. 2Q (talk · contribs) (Soviet aviation and air-launched weapons; Finno-Ugric minorities in the USSR)
81. Dyaa El Din
82. Storye book: Workhorse attached to Alexandrov Ensemble and Evgeny Belyaev pages.
83. Wallie (talk) 17:00, 29 April 2009 (UTC) Ballet, WW2, Sport
84. Vecrumba (talk · contribs) Interested in Soviet geopolitics from the revolution through to directly before, during, and after WWII
85. QUANTUM ZENO - Post-Stalin Soviet internal politics.

[edit] Structure

[edit] Goals

1. Standardise references to Soviet State organs.
2. Standardise category names. e.g. x of the Soviet Union or something other.
3. Expand soviet-stubs.
4. Expand articles.
5. Bring Soviet Union up to WP:WIAFA.
6. Improve articles with images from Commons:Category:Soviet Union, Commons:Category:PD_Soviet (over 1000 images) and other resources.
7. Improve categorisation of Soviet Union media in commons.

[edit] Projects

1. Soviet war in Afghanistan -> An important factor in the collapse of the USSR
2. Soviet armoured vehicles->Soviet Union was an important supportor and exporter of modernised weapons to many third world countries in asia,africa and south america.
3. Soviet Antarctic Expeditions. Not even a single of them is "recognized" in Wiki - see e.g. Template:Antarctic expeditions sidebar and List of Antarctic expeditions. Although there were at least 20 [1] and a plenty of Soviet (then Russian) Antarctic stations established by them.

[edit] Tasks

1. Work on Gosplan article.
2. Move _ASSR articles to _Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

This task is finished, as of May 30. TFCforever (talk) 17:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Infoboxes

{{Infobox SSR}}

{{Soviet Republics}}

{{Anthems of the Soviet Republics}}

v • d • e   Anthems of the USSR and Union Republics The Internationale (1922–1944) · National Anthem of the Soviet Union (1944–1991) Armenian SSR · Azerbaijan SSR · Byelorussian SSR · Estonian SSR · Georgian SSR · Kazakh SSR · Kirghiz SSR · Latvian SSR · Lithuanian SSR · Moldavian SSR · Russian SFSR · Tajik SSR · Turkmen SSR · Ukrainian SSR · Uzbek SSR Short-lived: Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940–1956)

{{Flags of the Soviet Republics}}

v • d • e   Flags of the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Armenian SSR · Azerbaijan SSR · Byelorussian SSR · Estonian SSR · Georgian SSR · Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956) · Kazakh SSR · Kirghiz SSR · Latvian SSR · Lithuanian SSR · Moldavian SSR · Russian SFSR · Tajik SSR · Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936) · Turkmen SSR · Ukrainian SSR · Uzbek SSR

{{Coat of arms of the Soviet Republics}}

v • d • e   Coats of arms of the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics Coat of arms of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Armenian SSR · Azerbaijan SSR · Byelorussian SSR · Estonian SSR · Georgian SSR · Kazakh SSR · Kirghiz SSR · Latvian SSR · Lithuanian SSR · Moldavian SSR · Russian SFSR · Tajik SSR · Turkmen SSR · Ukrainian SSR · Uzbek SSR Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956) · Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936)

{{Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union}}

v • d • e   Autonomous Republics of the Soviet Union Abkhaz ASSR (1930-1992) · Adjar ASSR (1921-1990) · Bashkir ASSR (1919-1990) · Buryat ASSR (1923-1990; Buryat-Mongol ASSR up to 1958) · Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1936-1944; 1957-1990) · Chuvash ASSR (1925-1990) · Crimean ASSR (1921-1945; 1991-1992) · Dagestan ASSR (1921-1991) · Gorno-Altai ASSR (1990-1991) · Kabardin ASSR (1944-1957) · Kabardino-Balkar ASSR (1936-1944; 1957-1991) · Kalmyk ASSR (1935-1943; 1958-1990) · Karachay-Cherkess ASSR (1990-1991) · Karakalpak ASSR (1932-1992) · Karelian ASSR (1923-1940; 1956-1991) · Kazakh ASSR (1925-1936) · Komi ASSR (1936-1990) · Kirghiz ASSR (1920-1925) · Mari ASSR (1936-1990) · Moldavian ASSR (1924-1940) · Mordovian ASSR (1934-1990) · Mountain ASSR (1920-1924) · Nakhchivan ASSR (1924-1990) · North Ossetian ASSR (1936-1990) · Tajik ASSR (1924-1929) · Tatar ASSR (1920-1990) · Turkestan ASSR (1918-1924) · Tuva ASSR (1961-1990) · Udmurt ASSR (1934-1991) · Volga German ASSR (1918-1941) · Yakut ASSR (1922-1990)

{{Autonomous Oblasts of the Soviet Union}}

v • d • e   Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union Adyghe AO · Gorno-Altai AO · Gorno-Badakhshan AO · Jewish AO · Karachay-Cherkess AO · Khakas AO · Nagorno-Karabakh AO · South Ossetian AO · Tuvan AO

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[edit] Stubs

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[edit] Barnstar

{{Soviet Barnstar}}

		The Soviet Barnstar
		Altenitvly you can use [[File:Soviet Ribbon.png|100px]].

[edit] Categories

[edit] Meta

• Category:WikiProject Soviet Union - Article Talk pages with the WikiProject Soviet Union template on.

[edit] Unmeta

• Category:Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union
• Category:Soviet Union
• Category:Anthems of the Soviet Republics
• Category:Soviet awards
• Category:Battles of the Soviet Union
• Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Category:Soviet culture
• Category:Soviet dissidents
• Category:Economy of the Soviet Union
• Category:Education in the Soviet Union
• Category:Flags of the Soviet Union
• Category:History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia
• Category:Law enforcement in the Soviet Union
• Category:Soviet media
• Category:Military of the Soviet Union
• Category:Soviet people
• Category:Soviet phraseology
• Category:Science and technology in the Soviet Union
• Category:Foreign relations of the Soviet Union
• Category:Soviet internal politics
• Category:Soviet Union stubs
• Category:Soviet state
• Category:Sport in the Soviet Union
• Category:Terrorism in the Soviet Union
• Category:Youth organizations of the Soviet Union

[edit] Lists

• List of Soviet Union-related topics
• List of Soviet movies of the year by ticket sales
• List of Gulag camps
• List of Antarctic expeditions by the Soviet Union
• List of people on stamps of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

[edit] Articles

Main list: List of Soviet Union-related topics

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union/New articles

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union/Assessment

Soviet Union articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	1	1	4		8
	GA	1		3	6		10
	B	29	52	45	38		164
	C	2	13	34	100		149
	Start	9	67	285	973		1334
	Stub	1	6	126	1707		1840
	List		6	13	44	1	64
	Assessed	44	145	507	2872	1	3569
	Unassessed					4	4
	Total	44	145	507	2872	5	3573

[edit] Peer review requests

[edit] In need of attention

• USSR Border Troops Only includes NKVD era info, should be extended
• Education in the Soviet Union
• Gosplan
• Gulag
• Printed media in the Soviet Union (fresh cut from LOC)
• Research in the Soviet Union
• Treaty of Creation of the USSR
• Order 7161
• Stalinist architecture - Some good info and images, but npov issues.
• Military ranks of the Soviet Union - Creator wants to see if the information is factual

[edit] Stubs

• De-Stalinization
• Aleksandr Morozov, tank designer
• March of the Soviet Tankmen
• Goskomtrud
• Gosstandart
• Gosstroy

• Vesenkha

[edit] Votes for deletion

• Votes for deletion (Article deletion)
• Votes for undelete (Article undeletion)
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Soviet Union-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Soviet Union.

There is currently a Russian Deletion sorting page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Russia) which will sometimes have relevant articles.

[edit] Requests

• Glavarkhiv

[edit] Resources

[edit] Sister Project links

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