page_title: Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic / History
caption_attribution_description: English: 100 years of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist RepublicРусский: Почтовая марка Беларуси 2019 года, посвящённая 100-летию образования БССР. На марке изображены фрагмент Манифеста о создании БССР от 1 января 1919 года, обложка конституции, герб и фрагмент флага республики. Также изображены достопримечательности, по часовой стрелке начиная с верхнего центра: Дом правительства (Минск), Национальный академический драматический театр имени Якуба Коласа (Витебск), мемориальный комплекс «Буйничское поле» (окрестности Могилёва), железнодорожный вокзал (Гомель), Брестская крепость (Брест), Новый замок (Гродно).
context_page_description: The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, also commonly referred to in English as Byelorussia, was a federal unit of the Soviet Union. It existed between 1920 and 1922, and from 1922 to 1991 as one of fifteen constituent republics of the USSR, with its own legislation from 1990 to 1991. The republic was ruled by the Communist Party of Byelorussia and was also referred to as Soviet Byelorussia by a number of historians.
  To the west it bordered Poland. Within the Soviet Union, it bordered the Lithuanian SSR and the Latvian SSR to the north, the Russian SFSR to the east, and the Ukrainian SSR to the south.
  The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia was declared by the Bolsheviks on 1 January 1919 following the declaration of independence by the Belarusian Democratic Republic in March 1918. In 1922, the BSSR was one of the four founding members of the Soviet Union, together with the Ukrainian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Byelorussia was one of several Soviet republics occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.
caption: A 2019 stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the BSSR
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