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    The telephone numbering plan of the USSR was a set of telephone area codes, numbers and dialing rules, which operated in the Soviet Union until the 1990s...
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    discussion of telephone numbers in Ukraine. The nation of Ukraine has country code +380. It switched to the European Union's common dialing plan in 2009. Thus...
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    Telephone numbers in Kazakhstan are regulated by the Telecommunications Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations, and Aerospace Industry...
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    +375 in 1995, replacing the +7 international country code inherited from the Soviet Union. The local numbering plan was inherited from the Soviet Union and...
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    telephone numbering plan with an open dialing plan. The country code is +373, adopted in 1993. Previously, when Moldova was part of the Soviet Union,...
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  • assigned telephone country code 37 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Despite its common telecommunication history with West Germany, the country...
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  • Thumbnail for List of country calling codes
    codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for...
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    Telephone numbers in Russia are administered by Roskomnadzor, and Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian...
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  • +7 (category Telephone numbers)
    country code for telephone numbering. It was originally assigned to the Soviet Union. After the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, the code continued...
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    Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government...
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    Seventeen days after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, the Soviet Union entered the eastern regions...
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  • telephony standard allows the use of the plus sign as the international call prefix, which makes it easier to store telephone numbers in a uniform format that...
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    The Ministry of Communications of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Министерство связи СССР) was the central state administration...
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    "Altai" mobile telephone system launched into experimental service in 1963 in the Soviet Union, becoming fully operational in 1965; the first automatic...
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    model made for the Turkish Army by Elektrisk Burau. P 78 field telephone P 90 field telephone TA-57, made in the Soviet Union P78, made in Sweden by L.M...
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  • List of international call prefixes (category Telephone numbers)
    carrier selection code consisting of one or more digits Brazil (see Telephone numbers in Brazil#International calls) Cambodia (001 – Telecom Cambodia, 007...
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    initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange. On the rotary dial, the digits are arranged in a circular...
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  • (180 mi). The Soviet scientists instrumented a 570-kilometer (350 mi) section of telephone line in the area that they expected to be affected by the nuclear...
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    independence, Azerbaijan switched to the current four-digit postcode. Postal code Azərpoçt Telephone numbers in Azerbaijan ISO 3166-2:AZ Administrative...
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    There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric...
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    The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the...
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  • Vertushka (category Communications in the Soviet Union)
    government telephone communications in the Soviet Union and Russia. It received the unofficial (slang) name Vertushka because, unlike the regular telephone network...
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    Over the course of its history, the Soviet Union intervened in foreign countries on numerous occasions. Two Soviet invasions of Afghanistan took place...
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    pay phone or pay telephone or public phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public...
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  • Busy signal (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    outside Europe. Most countries of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, are not members of the ETSI. These former Soviet republics employ a 425 Hz busy...
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    against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or any of its Soviet republics, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and its...
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    the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka...
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    abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922...
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    and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term...
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    with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991). These states followed the ideology of Marxism–Leninism, in opposition to the capitalist...
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