With the disintegration of USSR in end 1991, comprised of ____ Union Republics.

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The correct answer is A. 15.

The Soviet Union was a union of 15 socialist republics that existed from 1922 to 1991. The republics were:

• Russia
• Ukraine
• Belarus
• Kazakhstan
• Uzbekistan
• Tajikistan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Turkmenistan
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Georgia
• Moldova
• Lithuania
• Latvia
• Estonia

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and the 15 republics became independent countries.