The Crimean Crisis is at least partially due to the 1954 transfer of Crimea to the Ukraine SSR... were there any other territorial transfers between SSRs in the old USSR? Or was Crimea unique?

by ContinuumGuy
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Hello! The transfer of Crimea was not unique, there are several other examples:

  1. Gomel' uezd was tranferred from Russian SFSR to Belarussan SSR in 1926. You can compare this map from 1926 with modern map, which shows that at that time Gomel' was part of Russia.

  2. In 1944, after the deportation of some North Caucasian peoples, southern part of Chechnya was transferred from Russian SFSR to Georgian SSR. In 1957, after North Caucasians were allowed to return, this desicion was reverted. You can compare these two maps: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gruzinskaja_SSR_(1944-1955).jpg?uselang=en and 1957-1991

  3. There was territory exchange between Kazakh and Uzbek SSR's in 1950s, unfortunately I cannot find good map for that.

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On a similar note: Was the Soviet Union unique in these transfers of territories?

Did any other multi-nation states make such changes?