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Soviet passport Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_passport

Soviet passport
The front cover of a Soviet passport, 1991 series
Bio page of a Soviet passport, 1991 series
TypePassport
Issued by USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs
PurposeIdentification, travel
Valid in Russian Federation[1]
EligibilityUSSR citizenship

The Soviet passport (Russian: Паспорт СССР) was an identity document and passport issued pursuant to the laws of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for citizens of the USSR.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Soviet passports continued to be issued until 2000 in the Russian Federation, and in other post-Soviet states, until they were replaced with national passports gradually by 2001.[2] All Soviet passports remain valid as an identity document in the Russian Federation to this date.[1]

Soviet passports remained valid in Estonia until 1997,[3] in Kazakhstan until 1999,[4] in Latvia until 2000,[5] in Tajikistan and Ukraine until 2002,[6][7] in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan until 2003,[8][9] in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia until 2004,[10][11][12] in Armenia, Artsakh and Azerbaijan until 2005,[13][14] in Georgia and Lithuania until 2006,[15][16] in Transnistria until 2010,[17] and in Moldova until 2014.[18]

History

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The passport system of the Soviet Union underwent a number of transformations in the course of its history. In the late Soviet Union citizens of age sixteen or older had to have an internal passport. In addition, a passport for travel abroad (заграничный паспорт, загранпаспорт, zagranpasport, often confusingly translated as "foreign passport") was required for travel abroad. There were several types of abroad passport: an ordinary one, known simply as "USSR zagranpasport", a civil service passport (служебный паспорт, sluzhebny pasport), a diplomatic passport, and a sailor's passport.

Internal passports were serviced by "passport offices" (паспортный стол, pasportny stol) of local offices of the MVDs of Soviet republics. Abroad passports were handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the corresponding Soviet republic.

Internal passports were used in the Soviet Union for identification of persons for various purposes. In particular, passports were used to control and monitor the place of residence by means of propiska. Officially, propiska was introduced for statistical reasons: since in the planned economy of the Soviet Union the distribution of goods and services was centralized, the overall distribution of population was to be monitored. For example, a valid propiska was necessary to receive higher education or be employed.

The passports recorded the following information: surname, first name and patronymic, date and place of birth and ethnicity,[19] family status, propiska, and record of military service. Sometimes the passport also had special notes, for example blood group. As mentioned, the internal passports identified every bearer by ethnicity (национальность, natsional'nost'), e.g., Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Estonian, Jew, etc. When an individual applied for a passport at age 16, they had to select the ethnicity of one of their parents.[20] All residents were required by law to record their address on the document, and to report any changes to a local office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For example, by the age of forty-five, a person had to have three photographs of themselves in the passport – to account for the effects of aging – taken at the age of sixteen (when it was issued), twenty-five and forty-five. At different stages of development of the Soviet passport system, they could also contain information on place of work, social status (marriage, children), and other supporting information needed for those agencies and organizations to which the Soviet citizens used to appeal.

The internal passports were written in the Russian language and the language of the republic where it was issued. Passports for travel abroad were written Russian and French.[2] Starting 1991, French was replaced by English.[2]

  • Cover page of a 1974 Soviet Union passport
    Cover page of a 1974 Soviet Union passport
  • USSR passport for travel abroad, year 1929
    USSR passport for travel abroad, year 1929
  • Passport USSR, year 1974 – 1991
    Passport USSR, year 1974 – 1991
  • USSR passport for travel abroad, bio page 1976
    USSR passport for travel abroad, bio page 1976
  • USSR passport for travel abroad, year 1990
    USSR passport for travel abroad, year 1990
  • USSR service passport issued in 1984
    USSR service passport issued in 1984

Passport for international travel 1991 series

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USSR passport for travel abroad, 1991 series

Each passport has a data page and a signature page. A data page has a visual zone and no machine-readable zone. The visual zone has a photograph of the passport holder, data about the passport, and data about the passport owner under the writing "СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК" (UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS):[2]

  • Photograph
  • Type of document ("P" for "passport")
  • Code of the issuing country (always 'SUN')
  • Passport number
  • Surname in Latin
  • Given name(s) in Latin
  • Nationality (usually 'СССР / URSS')
  • Date of birth (DD.MM.YYYY format)
  • Place of birth
  • Sex
  • Date of issue
  • Date of expiration
  • Authority

The page next to the data page - the signature page, contains under the emblem of the USSR, the writing "UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS", and contains:[2]

  • Last name in Russian
  • First name in Russian
  • Patronymic in Russian
  • Signature of the holder

Notes on the last page of the passport:

Гражданин СССР, прибывший за границу на постоянное жительство, обязан встать на учет в консульском учреждении СССР и сняться с учета при смене места жительства.

translation: A citizen of the USSR who has arrived abroad for permanent residence is required to register with the consular office of the USSR and deregister when changing his place of residence.

Паспорт этот является собственностью Союза Советских Социалистических Республик.
This passport is the property of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Replacement passports

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Soviet passports were eventually replaced by the following national passports in post-Soviet states between 1992 and 2005.[2] Below are the replacement passports with year of first issue.

See also

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b Определение Судебной коллегии по гражданским делам Верховного Суда РФ от 30 мая 2006 г. N 81-В06-5
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Russian passport history (PDF)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  3. ^ "В Эстонии паспорт СССР больше не действует". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 1997-05-16. Archived from the original on 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  4. ^ "Паспорт СССР образца 1974 года". DeFacto.kz (in Russian). De Facto. 2008-08-18. Archived from the original on 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2019-09-14. Замена паспортов старого образца 1974 года на паспорта и удостоверения личности нового образца граждан РК была завершена еще 1 марта 1999 года. Поэтому паспорта СССР образца 1974 года недействительны для казахстанских граждан с этой даты
  5. ^ "В Латвии отменили советские паспорта". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2000-04-04. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  6. ^ Виктория Ли (2021-02-08). "«Я ничей гражданин»". refugee.ru. Сайт проекта «Гражданское содействие». Archived from the original on 2023-04-23. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  7. ^ "Паспорта советского образца действительны до осени". korrespondent.net (in Russian). Корреспондент. 2002-07-11. Archived from the original on 2017-10-14. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  8. ^ "Русских в Туркмении легализуют". ng.ru. Независимая газета. 2019-07-07. Archived from the original on 2021-09-04. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  9. ^ "«Человек-пустышка»". refugee.ru. Сайт проекта «Гражданское содействие». 2021-01-14. Archived from the original on 2021-11-11. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  10. ^ "Постановление Совета министров Республики Беларусь от 29 октября 2002 года № 1492 «Об ограничении срока действия паспорта гражданина СССР образца 1974 года и паспорта гражданина Республики Беларусь образца 1993 года»". BelZakon.net (in Russian). БелЗакон.net: законы Республики Беларусь. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  11. ^ "Срок действия советских паспортов в Киргизии продлевается ещё на полгода". РИА Новости (in Russian). 2004-01-22. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  12. ^ "Советский паспорт обернулся волчьим билетом". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2004-07-01. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  13. ^ a b "ГРАЖДАНЕ АРМЕНИИ, ИМЕЮЩИЕ ПАСПОРТА СОВЕТСКОГО ОБРАЗЦА, МОГУТ ПОЛУЧИТЬ НОВЫЕ ПАСПОРТА РЕСПУБЛИКИ АРМЕНИЯ ДО 25 НОЯБРЯ". armenpress.am (in Russian). 2005-10-25. Archived from the original on 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  14. ^ "В Азербайджане истекает срок действия советских паспортов". Кавказский узел (in Russian). 2004-12-23. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  15. ^ "С 15 июля по всей Грузии прекращается действие паспортов советского типа". Trend News Agency (in Russian). 2006-07-06. Archived from the original on 2020-08-14. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  16. ^ "Советский паспорт в Литве больше не действует". KM.RU (in Russian). 2006-01-01. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  17. ^ "Жители Приднестровья останутся гражданами СССР до 2010 года". Lenta.RU (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  18. ^ "С 1 сентября в Молдавии прекратят действовать советские паспорта". ТВЦ (in Russian). 2014-04-11. Archived from the original on 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  19. ^ In Russian, word национальность, natsional'nost' means ethnicity. This is not equivalent to the interpretation of "nationality" as "citizenship" as it is sometimes rendered in English and other languages. In Russian there is a separate word for "citizenship": граҗданство, grazhdanstvo.
  20. ^ According to the ethnic demographer V. I. Kozlov, the existence of this so-called "passport nationality," which was largely determined by birth, may have tended to fix the subjective national or ethnic identities of Soviet citizens: V. I. Kozlov, in Динамика численности народов (Dynamics in the Number of Peoples) (Moscow: Nauka, 1969). However, there is a lot of evidence of shifting of subjective nationality, for example as it was reflected in the Soviet censuses, despite the existence of a passport nationality. See, for example, B. A. Anderson and B. D. Silver, "Estimating Russification of Ethnic Identity Among Non-Russians in the USSR," Demography 20 (November 1983): 461–489.
  21. ^ "Russia: The propiska (registration) system and internal passports".
  22. ^ "Background Note on the Replacement of USSR passports in the Russian Federation".
  23. ^ "Как получить биометрические документы в Беларуси, рассказали в МВД". www.belta.by (in Russian). 2024-02-27. Archived from the original on 2024-03-12. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  24. ^ "Council of the European Union - PRADO - EST-AO-01001".
  25. ^ "100 years of history of Georgian passports showed in new Arch of 26 May".
  26. ^ "Kazakhstan: Information on Kazakh passports; on when they were first issued, their colour, length of validity and whether the bearer's nationality is shown in the passport".
  27. ^ "Kyrgyzstan: Passports and ID documents" (PDF).
  28. ^ "Council of the European Union - PRADO - LVA-AO-01001".
  29. ^ "Council of the European Union - PRADO - LTU-AO-01001".
  30. ^ "Centrul Resurselor Informaţionale de Stat «Registru»". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
  31. ^ "Modernizing Tajikistan's Travel Documents and ID management Past, Present and Future - ICAO" (PDF).
  32. ^ "ПОСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА ТУРКМЕНИСТАНА от 25 октября 1996 года №2843" (in Russian). Законодательство стран СНГ. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  33. ^ "Указ Президента Республики Узбекистан О ВВЕДЕНИИ В ДЕЙСТВИЕ «ПОЛОЖЕНИЯ О ПАСПОРТНОЙ СИСТЕМЕ В РЕСПУБЛИКЕ УЗБЕКИСТАН» 23.12.1994".
  34. ^ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ Про паспорт громадянина України для виїзду за кордон 28.10.1993".
  35. ^ Melkosian, Ardavadz (28 October 2007). Паспортизация Абхазии – караван идет медленно (in Russian). New Caucasus. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  36. ^ "Tskhinvali Begins Issuing South Ossetian Passports, civil.ge 15.08.2006". Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
  37. ^ "Исполнилось 80 лет паспортной системе | Новости Приднестровья | Официальное информагентство Приднестровской Молдавской Республики". Archived from the original on 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2013-01-03.
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