1994 Death Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71 1993 Death Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54 1991 Event Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR 1991 Event Georgia SSR votes to secede from U.S.S.R. 1991 Event Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union 1988 Event Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die) 1968 Birthday Leila Meskhi, Tbilisi Georgia SSR, tennis star, 1995 Hobart 1956 Event Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR 1954 Birthday Robert Kocharian, born in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, politician, President of Armenia 1998 - 2008, President of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1994 - 1997 1945 Event Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR 1940 Event Lithuanian SSR is accepted into U.S.S.R. 1940 Event Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR 1940 Event Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956) 1936 Event Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union 1930 Event Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR 1925 Event Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) 1924 Event Uzbek SSR forms 1924 Event Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR 1922 Event Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR 1922 Event South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR 1921 Event Georgian SSR proclaimed 1920 Event Azerbaijan SSR joins U.S.S.R. (1st time) 1919 Event Belorussian SSR established
