See under USSR.
Abbreviation for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian СССР = SSSR) was a centrally governed, federal, one-party state whose territory stretched across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to Central Asia and throughout Northern Asia. It was founded on 30 December 1922. In 1990, the area under vines was about 1.1 million hectares, of which about 16.5 million hectolitres of wine were produced. This made the USSR one of the...
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