Soyuz

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"Soyuz" is a transliteration of the Cyrillic text "Союз", the Russian and Ukrainian word for "Union". It was often used as an internal abbreviation for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ("Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик": "Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik") during the period of that country's existence. The term was used officially by both the Soviet State (for example in various projects it commissioned during the Space Race) and the citizenry as a whole. As terminological shorthand it was often used interchangeably with each of the slightly longer terms "Сове́тский Сою́з" ("Sovetskiy Soyuz"; "Soviet Union"), and the initialism "ссср" ("SSSR" in the latin alphabet, "USSR" in English). This use was primarily confined to the Soviet Union itself, since elsewhere the name of the country was typically translated into the native language, and abbreviated accordingly. Internationally, it most commonly refers to elements of the Soviet/Russian space program.

Space program uses[]

• Soyuz program, a human spaceflight program initiated by the Soviet Union, continued by the Russian Federation
• Soyuz (spacecraft), used in that program
• Soyuz (rocket), initially used to launch that spacecraft
• Soyuz (rocket family), derivatives of that rocket design
• Soyuz Launch Complex in Kourou, French Guiana

Other Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian uses[]

• SS Albert Ballin, a 1922 German-built ship recovered and renamed Soyuz by the USSR
• Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship, an aborted ship construction program, 1938–1941
• Sovetsky Soyuz, a propaganda magazine published by the Soviet Union, beginning in 1956
• Soyuz Station, a base established in 1982 by members of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions in Mac. Robertson Land
•  [ru], a Moscow-based media company, founded in 1988
• Soyuz (faction) in the Congress of Soviets, 1990–1991
• Soyuz (political party), a political party in Ukraine, established in 1997

International uses[]

• Soyuz, a fictional team of Russian superheroes; see List of teams and organizations in DC Comics
• Soyuz (Dr. Stone), a fictional character in the Japanese manga series Dr. Stone

See also[]

• The dictionary definition of Soyuz at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of Союз at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of союз at Wiktionary