#Soviet Union
- Akmolinsk — The historical official name formerly used for the current capital of Kazakhstan, the city of Astana; initially founded in eighteen thirty as a Russian military fortress outpost in the Kazakh steppe, it held this structural name throughout the Tsarist and early Soviet periods until nineteen sixty-one. This crucial railway and administrative hub was subsequently renamed Tselinograd during the Virgin Lands Campaign, then Akmola, Nur-Sultan, and once again Astana, reflecting through these toponymic shifts the geopolitical evolutions and identity dynamics of the Eurasian space.
- Alma-Ata — The historical and official Russian name used between 1921 and 1993 for the largest city in Kazakhstan, currently known by its native name Almaty. Located in the southeastern part of the country at the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains, the city served as the capital of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and subsequently of independent Kazakhstan until 1997, remaining the nation's primary economic, cultural, and academic hub, also famous for the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration that formalized the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
- Anti-Soviet — Manifesting an attitude of hostility, opposition, or resistance toward the political regime, ideology, institutions, or interests of the Soviet Union; directed against Bolshevik or Stalinist political structures. In the context of the Cold War, the term defined actions, discourses, or partisan movements challenging Moscow's geopolitical dominance and totalitarian expansion.
- ARLUS — Acronym for 'Asociația Română pentru Strângerea Legăturilor cu Uniunea Sovietică' (Romanian Association for Strengthening Relations with the Soviet Union), a political and cultural propaganda organization established in Romania in the autumn of 1944. This structural entity played an aggressive geopolitical role during the Sovietization of the country, with the official mission of promoting Stalinist ideology, the Russian language, and Soviet communist achievements among the masses, before being formally dissolved in 1964.