Voters were asked two questions on reforming the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign states.

[2] Throughout the entire Soviet Union, citizens were first asked: Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?

[3]A boycott campaign reduced the against votes in Western Ukraine.

[4] The Ukrainian SSR included an additional question for all of the republic's citizens; the voters were asked: Do you agree that Ukraine should be part of a Union of Soviet Sovereign States on the basis on the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine?

[5]In the Galician provinces of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Ternopil, voters were asked an additional question regarding the creation of an independent state of Ukraine:[6][7] Do you want the Ukraine to become an independent state that by itself decides all questions of domestic and foreign policy, secures equal rights of citizens regardless of their ethnic or religious affiliation?