page_title: Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
section_title: 1927
hierarchical_section_title: Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic / Subdivisions / 1927
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Uzbek SSR in 1927
context_page_description: Uzbekistan is the common English name for the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and later, the Republic of Uzbekistan, that refers to the period of Uzbekistan from 1924 to 1991. as one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek branch of the Soviet Communist Party, the only legal political party, from 1925 until 1990. From 1990 to 1991, it was a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation. Sometimes, that period is also referred to as Soviet Uzbekistan.
  Beginning 20 June 1990, the Uzbek SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty within its borders. Islam Karimov became the republic's inaugural president.
  On 31 August 1991, the Uzbek SSR was renamed the Republic of Uzbekistan and declared independence three months before the Soviet Union's dissolution on 26 December 1991.
  Uzbekistan was bordered by Kazakhstan to the north; Tajikistan to the southeast; Kirghizia to the northeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest.
context_section_description: Khorezm Okrug (cap: Khiva)
  Kanimekh Raion (cap.: Kanimekh)
  Bukhara
  Zeravshan Okrug (cap: Kermine)
  Kashka-Darin Okrug (cap: Bek-Budi)
  Samarkand
  Surkhan-Darshin Okrug (cap: Shirabad)
  Tashkent
  Khotshent
  Fergan Okrug (capital: Kokand)
  Andizhan
  Tajik ASSR
  Dushanbe
  Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (cap:Khoror)
caption: The Uzbek SSR in 1927, including Tajik ASSR and Khodzhent
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