Supreme Soviet of Russia

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The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, later the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, was the highest organ of state authority of the Russian SFSR from 1938 to 1990; between 1990 and 1993, it was the permanent organ of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation. The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR was established to be similar in structure to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1938, replacing the All-Russian Congress of Soviets as the highest organ of power of Russia. In the 1940s, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR were located in the former mansion of counts Osterman (3 Delegatskaya Street), which was later in 1991 given to a museum. The sessions were held in Grand Kremlin Palace. In 1981 the Supreme Soviet was moved to a specially constructed building on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, The House of Soviets. The Supreme Soviet was abolished in October 1993 (after the events of Russia's 1993 constitutional crisis...

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