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The Byelorussian SSR (; ; abbreviated '' БССР '', Bielorusskaja Sovietskaja Socialistitchieskaja Riespublika , BSSR ) was one of Fifteen Constituent Republics of the Soviet Union . It was one of the four original founding members of the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922 , together with the Ukrainian SSR , the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR . The Soviet Republic, along with the Ukrainian SSR and the Soviet Union, were founder members of the United Nations Organization in 1945. The Soviet republic in the lands of Belarus was declared on January 1 1919 , but it took a few years to define its status. Byelorussia was also one of several Soviet Republics occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II . The end of the Soviet Republic occurred in 1991 and the county was later renamed into the current Republic Of Belarus . HISTORY Being part of the in 1922 and became known as BSSR. Polish Autonomous District Dzierzynszczyzna was created within BSSR in 1932 and disbanded in 1935. In September 1939 , the Soviet Union annexed the Polish-held West Belarus during the 1939 Invasion Of Poland and incorporated it into the BSSR. Part of it was later transferred to the Lithuanian SSR . After World War II , the Byelorussian SSR was given a seat in the United Nations General Assembly together with the Soviet Union and Ukrainian SSR , becoming one of the founding members of the UN. Following the August Coup , the Supreme Soviet of Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union on August 25 , 1991 . The republic was renamed the '' Republic Of Belarus '' on September 19 1991 . On December 8 , 1991 it was a signatory, along with Russia and Ukraine , of the Belavezha Accords , which replaced the Soviet Union with the Commonwealth Of Independent States . DEMOGRAPHICS Nationalities (1959):
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