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Calque of Russian Сове́т Национа́льностей (Sovét Nacionálʹnostej).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: One of the two legislative chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; it represented the interests of members of different ethnicities in the USSR. Full definition →
Calque of Russian Сове́т Национа́льностей (Sovét Nacionálʹnostej).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.