page_title: Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
section_title: 1989
hierarchical_section_title: Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic / Subdivisions / 1989
caption_attribution_description: English: Soviet Union administrative divisions (republics) and sub-divisions (oblasts, autonomous republics, autonomous districs, etc.) in the year 1989, the last before the process of independence of Soviet republics after the Berlin Wall fall.&#160;
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: Karakalpak ASSR
  Khorezm Oblast
  Bukhara Oblast
  Samarkand Oblast
  Kashkadarya Oblast
  Surkhadarya Oblast
  Jizzakh Oblast
  Syrdarya Oblast
  Tashkent Oblast
  Andijan Oblast
  Namangan Oblast
  Fergana Oblast
caption: The Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union, 1989 (Navoi Oblast not shown)
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