Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

During the existence of the Soviet Union, different governments existed within the Crimean Peninsula. From 1921 to 1936, the government in the Crimea was known as the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic and was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; from 1936 to 1945, the name was slightly altered to the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.