When did the Soviet Union disintegrate?

The correct answer is 1991.​

Key Points

• On 12 June 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty established citizenship of Russia and stated that the RSFSR (Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic) shall retain the right of free secession from the USSR.
• Political Un-accountability, Economic weakness, Rise of Nationalism, and Gorbachev's reforms are the factors that led to the disintegration of the USSR.
• The Russian Revolution of 1917 ended the Russian empire.
• This was followed by the Russian Civil War which finally resulted in the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922.
• The Soviet Union officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
• USSR was a strong bloc with great control over global politics from 1922 to 1991 when it was disintegrated into smaller units.
• The USSR was a loose confederation of 15 republics with Russia as the leader.
• The USSR had a total of 15 republics before its disintegration in 1991 are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
• On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
• Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
• The office of president had been added to the political structure of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1991.
• Personality clashes between Yeltsin and the parliamentary leadership led to a break between the legislative and executive branches.

Additional Information

• The current President of Russia -  Vladimir Putin.
• The current Prime Minister of Russia - Mikhail Mishustin.
• Parliament name of Russia - Duma and Federal Council.
• Capital of Russia - Moscow.
• Currency of Russia - Rubel.