Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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The Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union. This "Land of Mountains" was known also for having a "mountain of peoples," with more than 30 nationalities or ethnic groups indigenous to the territory. Although as part of its strategy to promote local languages, and to discourage pan-Turkic and pan-Islamic movements a half-dozen of these nationalities were provided with schooling in their native language at some point in Soviet history, Russian language became the most widespread second language and gradually the lingua franca, especially in urban areas.

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• Dagestan

v • d • e Autonomous Republics of the Soviet Union

Abkhaz ASSR  · Adjar ASSR  · Bashkir ASSR  · Buryat ASSR  · Chechen-Ingush ASSR  · Chuvash ASSR  · Crimean ASSR  · Dagestan ASSR  · Kabardin ASSR  · Kabardino-Balkar ASSR  · Kalmyk ASSR  · Karakalpak ASSR  · Karelian ASSR  · Kazakh ASSR  · Komi ASSR  · Kyrgyz ASSR  · Mari ASSR  · Moldavian ASSR  · Mordovian ASSR  · Nakhichevan ASSR  · North Ossetian ASSR  · Tatar ASSR  · Turkestan ASSR  · Tuva ASSR  · Udmurt ASSR  · Volga German ASSR  · Yakut ASSR

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