Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic

The Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (Russian: Верховный Совет Карело-Финской ССР tr. Verkhovnyy Sovet Karelo-Finskoy SSR) was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) of the Karelo-Finnish SSR. The Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was established in June 1940 when the third session of the First Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelian ASSR adopted the law of transforming the Karelian ASSR into the Karelo-Finnish SSR.^[2] The first elections of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR took place on June 16, 1940, and the first session of the first convocation took place on November 8, 1940.^[3] The Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was disbanded in August 1956 when the Karelo-Finnish SSR was demoted to an autonomous soviet socialist republic on July 16, 1956.^[4]

Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR Верховный Совет Карело-Финской ССР
Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956)
Emblem of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
Type
Type	Supreme Soviet[1]
History
Established	1940
Disbanded	1956
Preceded by	Supreme Soviet of the Karelian ASSR (ru)
Succeeded by	Supreme Soviet of the Karelian ASSR (ru)
Leadership
Chairman	Ivan Sogiyainen (last)
Elections
Last election	1955

Convocations

• 1st Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1947)
• 2nd Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1947-1951)
• 3rd Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1951-1955)
• 4th Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1955-1956)

Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet

Portrait	Chairman	From	To
	Nikolai Sorokin	1940	1947
	Adolf Taimi	1947	1955
	Ivan Sogiyainen	1955	1956

See also

• Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union
• Supreme Soviet
• Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic