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URS - Soviet Union :
The USSR fell apart in 1991,
leaving many newly formed states in Europe and Asia, as by this
timetable:
from 1991-09-06 on: Estonia (EST),
Latvia (LVA), and Lithuania
(LTU) declared independence, leaving Kaliningrad
(KAL) as russian exclave in the baltic area
from 1991-12-26 on: Russia (RUS),
Ukraine (UKR), Belarus
(BLR), Moldova (MDA) in Europe, and Armenia
(ARM), Azerbaijan (AZE)
(with exclave Nakhichevan (NAK)),
Georgia (GEO), Kazakhstan
(KAZ), Kyrgystan (KGZ),
Tadjikistan (TJK), Turkmenistan (TKM), and
Uzbekistan (UZB) in Asia
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see here for a note on stations of formerly exixting countries
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the USSR was the largest state
on earth. To give you a clue on the station's location, coded
in the station number, look here
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