Georgian SSR

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Georgia, was a republic of the Soviet Union from its occupation by the Red Army in 1921 to its independence in 1991. Coterminous with present Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it stood on the traditional Georgian lands that had been states of the Caucasus before the Russian annexation of the nineteenth century and the Democratic Republic of 1918 to 1921. Formed in 1921 and taken into the Soviet Union in 1922, it belonged until 1936 to the Transcaucasian Federative Republic, a union republic of the USSR. On 18 November 1989 it declared its sovereignty over Soviet laws, it was renamed the Republic of Georgia on 14 November 1990, and it left the Union on 9 April 1991, ahead of the Soviet dissolution, each former republic becoming a sovereign state. Its Black Sea coast and its Turkish border shaped its trade and its wars.