First All-Union Congress of Soviets

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First All-Union Congress of Soviets
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Stepan Dudnik. Signing an Agreement on the Formation of the Soviet Union
Overview
Legislative body	Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union
Jurisdiction	Soviet Union
Meeting place	Bolshoi Theatre
Term	December 30, 1922
Chairman of the Congress	Mikhail Kalinin
Congress Secretary	Avel Yenukidze
Party control	Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The First All-Union Congress of Soviets (Russian: I Всесоюзный съезд Советов, romanized: 1 Vsesoyuznyy s"ezd Sovetov) was a congress of representatives of Soviets of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies, held on December 30, 1922 in Moscow. The congress was attended by 2215 delegates (1727 from the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, 364 from the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, 91 from the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, 33 from the Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic). Kalinin was elected chairman of the congress, but Vladimir Lenin, who was not present at the congress due to illness, was elected honorary chairman of the congress. More than 90% of the delegates were members of the Russian Communist Party, 2 left-wing social federalists of the Caucasus, 1 anarchist and 1 member of the Jewish Social Democratic Party.

The congress approved the Declaration and the Treaty on the Formation of a New State – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 4 states have united in the Soviet Union: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. In addition, the congress elected the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.