Administrative division of the USSR on October 1, 1931

USSR divided into republics

• the total number of Soviet republics - 7
• the total number of Soviet republics of the ZSFSR - 3
• total number of autonomous republics - 15
• total number of edges - 9
• total number of areas - 6
• total number of counties - 228
• total number of national districts - 11
• total number of districts - 2,591
• total number of village councils - 68 209
• total number of cities - 711, including 157 allocated to independent administrative units
• total number of working villages - 516
• total number of rural settlements - 606,753
• the capital of the USSR is Moscow
• list of republics and territories:

1. RSFSR (Moscow)
   1. 1. Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Ufa)
      2. Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Verkhneudinsk)
      3. Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (the city of Makhach-Kala)
      4. Kazak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Alma-Ata)
      5. Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Petrozavodsk)
      6. Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Frunze city)
      7. Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Simferopol)
      8. Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans (Engels)
      9. Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Kazan)
      10. Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Cheboksary)
      11. Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Yakutsk)
      12. Northern Territory (Arkhangelsk)
      13. Nizhny Novgorod Territory (Nizhny Novgorod) - includes the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
      14. Middle Volga Region (Samara)
      15. Lower Volga Region (Saratov) - includes the Volga Germans Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
      16. North Caucasus Region (Rostov-on-Don)
      17. West Siberian Territory (Novosibirsk)
      18. East Siberian Territory (Irkutsk) - includes the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
      19. Far East Region (Khabarovsk)
2. Ukrainian SSR (Kharkov)
   1. 1. Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tiraspol)
3. Belorussian SSR (Minsk)
4. ZSFSR (Tiflis)
   1. Azerbaijan SSR (Baku)
      1. Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Nakhichevan city)
   2. Armenian SSR (city of Erivan)
   3. Georgian SSR (Tiflis)
      1. Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Sukhum)
      2. Adjara Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Batum)
5. Tajik SSR (Stalinabad)
6. Turkmen SSR (Ashkhabad city)
7. Uzbek SSR (Tashkent, until 1931 - Samarkand)