Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

{{Short description|Autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR}}{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}

{{Infobox former subdivision

|native_name = {{native name|cv|Чӑваш АССР}}
{{native name|ru|Чувашская АССР}}

|conventional_long_name = Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

|common_name = Chuvash ASSR

|subdivision = ASSR

|nation = the Russian SFSR

|government_type = Soviet republic

|year_start = 1925

|year_end = 1992

|image_flag = Flag of Chuvash ASSR.svg

|image_coat = Coat of Arms of Chuvash ASSR.svg

|flag_type = Flag

|symbol_type = Emblem

|p1 = Chuvash Autonomous Oblast{{!}}{{nobr|Chuvash AO}}

|flag_p1 = Flag of Russian SFSR (1918-1937).svg

|s1 = Chuvashia

|flag_s1 = Flag of Chuvashia.svg

|capital = Cheboksary

|today = Russia

|demonym =

|image_map = Chuvash in Russia.svg

|image_map_caption = Map of the Chuvash Republic in Russia today, the same territory as the Chuvash ASSR}}

File:Flag of Chuvash ASSR (1927-1931).jpg

File:The Soviet Union 1970 CPA 3901 stamp (Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Established on 1920.06.24)).jpg

The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic{{efn|{{langx|cv|Чӑваш Автономлӑ Совет Социаллӑ Республики|Çăvaş Avtonomlă Sovet Sotsiallă Respubliki}}; {{langx|ru|Чувашская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика|Chuvashskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika}}}} was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union.

It occupied about {{convert|18000|km2|abbr=off}} along the east bank of the Volga River, about {{convert|60|km|abbr=off}} west of the river's confluence with the Kama River and some {{convert|700|km|abbr=off}} east of Moscow.{{Fact|date=August 2021}}

The successor of the Chuvash Autonomous Oblast, the Chuvash ASSR was formed in 1925.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Soviet Union: a country study|publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress|location=Washington, D.C.|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/90025756/|last=Gawdiak|first=Ihor Y.|date=1991|editor-last=Zickel|editor-first=Raymond E.|edition=2nd|pages=181|isbn=0-16-036380-2|oclc=22911443|entry=Chuvash}} It declared its sovereignty within the Soviet Union in 1990 as the Chuvash Republic (still within Russia).{{Fact|date=August 2021}}

Its primary economic activities were agricultural. Grain and fruit production and logging are emphasized.{{Fact|date=August 2021}} The capital city was Cheboksary.