Country mentioned on the Beatles' "White Album"

• Old atlas initials
• Russia at one point
• Russia, once
• Outdated globe letters
• Home of the K.G.B.
• Where Maria Sharapova was born
• Former permanent member of the U.N. Security Council
• Khrushchev's country (abbr.)
• Sputnik's birthplace, for short

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also U.S.S.R. , initialism (acronym) of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , by 1926.\n