Capitals of the Soviet Union

In addition to republics, the USSR also had so-called autonomous republics. If the republics could be compared at least in a formal sense to the British dominions, the so-called autonomous republics were in turn part of some republics and had less state-specific formal characteristics. 

But the biggest difference between autonomous republics and republics became clear after the collapse of the USSR, because all the republics became  sovereign states, while the former autonomous republics are still parts of other countries.   
Autonomous republics were usually smaller than republics. Although, for example, Yakutia was huge, about the size of India.
There were a little more autonomous republics than republics. 

I hope it will not be too complicated to mention that there were also autonomous oblasts and national okrugs (districts). The ethnic units with a lower status than the autonomous republics were the autonomous regions (oblasts) and the lowest were the national districts (okrugs).
So now the capitals of the autonomous republics, regions and districts. For the sake of brevity, I will only write okrug from now on. They were even smaller. However, in geographical terms, the okrugs  were large, larger than most European countries, eg the Yamalo Nenets okrug can easily accommodate two Germanys. 

In total, there were considerably more such autonomous units than republics. 

Let's start with the Asian part.

Russian SFSR:

Yakutsk, Yakutia




Anadyr, Chukotka okrug



Palana, Koryak okrug



Abakan, Khakasia




Ulan-Ude, Buryatia



Aginskoe, Agin-Buryat okrug




Ust-Ordynsky, Ust-Orda Buryat okrug

There was no English box available, so I took the Russian one.




Kyzyl, Tuva




Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets okrug



Tura, Evenk okrug


Dudinka, Taymyr okrug



Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansi okrug






Gorno Altaysk, Gorno Altai autonomous oblast



Birobidzhan,  Jewish autonomous oblast



Uzbekistan SSR:

Nukus, Karakalpakia


Tadjikistan SSR:

Khorog, Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous oblast




Georgian SSR:

Abkhazia, Sukhumi




Batumi, Adjaria




Tshinkvali, South-Ossetia autonomous oblast


Azerbaidjan SSR:

Nakhchivan city, Nakhchivan 





Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous oblast