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Novozvezdan Soviet Socialist Republic
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| Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Russian) "Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся!"(Ukrainian) "Барлық елдердің пролетарлары, бірігіңдер!"(Kazakh) "Workers of the world, unite!" | |||||||
| Status | Soviet socialist republic | ||||||
| Capital | Zhukovsky | ||||||
| Official languages | Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh | ||||||
| Religion | State atheism | ||||||
| Demonym(s) | Novozvezdan, Soviet | ||||||
| Government | Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party Soviet socialist republic | ||||||
• First Secretary | Zakhar Volyntsev | ||||||
| Legislature | Supreme Soviet | ||||||
| Establishment | |||||||
• First permanent lunar settlement | 30 December 1974 | ||||||
• Established as ASSR | 4 April 1995 | ||||||
• Elevation to a Union Republic | 16 December 2014 | ||||||
Novozvezdan Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Новозвездная Советская Социалистическая Республика, Ukrainian: Новозірка Радянська Соціалістична Республіка, Kazakh: Жаңажұлдыз Советтік Социалистік Республикасы), abbreviated as the Novozvezdan SSR, also known as Novozvezda and Soviet Luna, is a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Encompassing all Soviet territory on Luna, it was founded on 16 December 2014 from the Novozvezdan ASSR, an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR.
Novozvezdan is the largest lunar territory by area and second largest by population after the United States. It is located on the far side of the moon, with its largest settlement and capital being the city of Zhukovsky situated in Mare Moscoviense.
Initially during the existence of the Novozvezdan ASSR and the first six years of the Novozvezdan SSR, Russian was the republic's only official language. However, because of the Soviet policy of involuntary population transfer to Luna between 1978 and 2005 to provide labor and the initial waves of colonization a significant portion of the Novozvezdan population was not ethnically Russian. The largest Soviet ethnic groups represented on Luna aside from the Russians were the Ukrainians (28%) and Kazakhs (21%), with numerous others represented. As well, while most ethnic Russians had volunteered for lunar settlement or were military personnel and their families, the plurality of ethnic minorities did not have a choice in the matter. The intent of the Soviet government was to Russify these minorities and create a new, single, Russian-dominant identity for Novozvezda without further national delimitation over time. However, after Novozvezda's elevation from ASSR to SSR, ethnic tensions that had been building since the 1970s boiled over and rumors of ethnic mismanagement in Soviet Luna began to be publicized in the west. Following the 2019 wildcat strike in Zhukovsky and riots in Korolev led by minority workers, Ukrainian and Kazakh were officially made co-equal languages with Russian. Despite the conflict's racist origins, on Earth the newly instituted nativization policy was spun by the Soviet government as its first republic in space being a shining multiethnic endeavour and an example of a new korenizatsiia.
Etymology
The name Novozvezda, meaning "New Star", was decided by the People's Commissariat for Space Settlement prior to the construction of Zhukovsky. It was named after the Zvezda moonbase, the Soviet Union's first continuously inhabited outpost on Luna.
List of settlements
- This list is incomplete.
| Settlement | Population | Etymology | Remarks |
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| Barabashovo | 3,800 | Named after Nikolai Barabashov, astronomer | Small town built to support a scientific research outpost |
| Chernykh | 47,720 | Named after Nikolai Chernykh, astronomer | |
| Dollezhal | 56,700 | Named after Nikolay Dollezhal, nuclear reactor designer | An atomgrad built to serve the Dollezhal Nuclear Power Plant and house its workers |
| Korolev | 487,800 | Named after Sergei Korolev, rocket engineer and spacecraft designer | The largest Soviet settlement outside of Mare Moscoviense. |
| Lunokhodsk | 93,200 | Named after the Lunokhod programme | |
| Sakko i Vancetti | 21,340 | Named after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti | A military town constructed solely to house and serve the families of a nearby Strategic Missile Forces base. |
| Tukhachevskoye | 130,230 | Named after Mikhail Tukhachevsky, general and military theorist | A military town constructed primarily to house and serve the families of a nearby Soviet Army base. |
| Zhukovsky (Capital) |
2,450,300 | Named after Nikolay Zhukovsky, a founder of the field of aerodynamics | The largest settlement by area and population in Novozvezda |