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Territorial disputes of the Soviet Union

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Sino-Soviet border conflict

1969 undeclared conflict between USSR and People's Republic of China

Transcarpathia is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast.

Kuril Islands dispute

disagreement between Japan and Russia over sovereignty of the South Kuril Islands

Galician Soviet Socialist Republic

self-declared and short-lived communist state

Victoria Island

island in Barents Sea, Russia

Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island

sedimentary island at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur rivers

Turkish Straits crisis

Cold War territorial conflict between USSR & Turkey

Ukrainian region around the town of Hertsa; former county in Moldavia

Karelian question

dispute in Finnish politics

territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union

after the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the Soviet Union invaded the eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic

Soviet territorial claims against Turkey

Attempts to claim eastern Anatolia

Sixty-Four Villages East of the River

human-geographic territorial entity

Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia

World War II event

Bessarabian question

controversy over the ownership of the geographic region of Bessarabia

Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia

World War II event