Kazakh SSR

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæzæk ˌɛsɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/, /ˈkɑːzɑk ˌɛsɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/

the Kazakh SSR

1. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Kazakhstan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1920–1990).
   • 1962, W. A. Douglas Jackson, The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?‎, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 9:

     Not far inside the USSR, to the south of the Ili on the Turkestan-Siberian Railway, sits Alma-Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Founded by the Russians a century ago, it contains over 456,000 inhabitants, mainly Russian. From its position, the city is able to command the western approach to the upper Ili.

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics