Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; Татарстан Автономияле Совет Социалистик Республикасы), abbreviated as Tatar ASSR (Татарская АССР; Татарстан АССР) or TASSR (ТАССР; ТАССР) (1920–1990), was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. The resolution for its creation was signed on 27 May 1920 and the republic was proclaimed on 25 June 1920. Kazan served as its capital.

The territory of the TASSR was a part of Kazan, Simbirsk, and Ufa Governorates (guberniyas) of the Imperial Russia before the October Revolution of 1917.
 * 1920: Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
 * 1990: Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
 * 1992: Republic of Tatarstan

Notable people

 * Gabdulkhay Akhatov – professor and Turkologist
 * Sofia Gubaidulina – composer
 * Chulpan Khamatova – film, theater and TV actress
 * Mintimer Shaimiev – politician, the first secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU
 * Boris Yeltsin – first Russian president (1991–1999)
 * Rustem Yakhin – composer
 * Ravil Maganov – chairman of Lukoil (2020–2022)
 * Valery Gerasimov – Incumbent Russian Chief of General Staff