Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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The Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as Abkhaz ASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Georgian SSR within the Soviet Union. It came into existence on 19 February 1931 and adopted its first constitution on 2 August 1937. The supreme organ of legislative power in the autonomous republic was the Supreme Soviet, elected every 4 years, and its Presidium. The executive power in the autonomous republic was vested with the Council of Ministers appointed by the Supreme Soviet. The Abkhaz ASSR had 11 representatives in the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The autonomous republic ceased to exist following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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