Soviet passport

Soviet passport
The front cover of a Soviet passport, 1991 series
Bio page of a Soviet passport, 1991 series
Type	Passport
Issued by	USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs
Purpose	Identification, travel
Valid in	Russian Federation[1]
Eligibility	USSR citizenship

The Soviet passport (Russian: Паспорт СССР) was an identity document and passport issued pursuant to the laws of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for citizens of the USSR.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Soviet passports continued to be issued until 2000 in the Russian Federation, and in other post-Soviet states, until they were replaced with national passports gradually by 2001.^[2] All Soviet passports remain valid as an identity document in the Russian Federation to this date.^[1]

Soviet passports remained valid in Estonia until 1997,^[3] in Kazakhstan until 1999,^[4] in Latvia until 2000,^[5] in Tajikistan and Ukraine until 2002,^[6][7] in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan until 2003,^[8][9] in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia until 2004,^[10][11][12] in Armenia, Artsakh and Azerbaijan until 2005,^[13][14] in Georgia and Lithuania until 2006,^[15][16] in Transnistria until 2010,^[17] and in Moldova until 2014.^[18]