Originally called the Autonomous Karelian Soviet Socialist Republic (AKSSR; Finnish: Autonominen Karjalan sosialistinen neuvostotasavalta, Russian: Автономная Карельская Социалистическая Советская Республика) until 1936, the Karelian ASSR was formed as a part of the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of June 27, 1923 and by the Decree of the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars of July 25, 1923 from the Karelian Labor Commune.

Pjotr Soljakov, a Russian politician, replaced Bushuev, and he served as the chairman of the Karelian ASSR until it ceased to exist in 1940.

[7] The K-FSSR was also conflicted with the criteria outlined by Stalin in his address introducing the then-current 1936 Soviet Constitution,[8] as its population never reached a million, and as stated earlier, neither Karelians or Finns formed a majority in it.

[9] Finnish retained its status as an official language, however, but its influence and use had now shrunk to a very minor point in comparison to earlier times.

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