Tannu Tuva
Uriankhai region of northwestern Outer Mongolia
(q.v.); in December 1921, as a result of Soviet
insistence, it became the Tannu Tuva People's Republic, the
independence of which was later recognized by Mongolia in the
Mongolian-Soviet Treaty of Friendship of 1926. In 1944 it was
annexed by the Soviet Union as the Tuvinian Oblast of the Russian
Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, and in 1961 it became the
Tuvinskaya Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Tuvins
(q.v.).
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