THE SPANISH EMIGRANTS AND CITIZENSHIP INSTITUTION IN THE USSR (SECOND HALF OF 1930 S - EARLY 1940-IES)

The article focuses on the Soviet citizenship obtaining by Spanish immigrants who arrived in the Soviet Union during and after the Civil War (1936-1939), ended in the defeat of the Republicans. The article addresses the status before the acquisition of nationality under the laws of the Soviet Union, and especially the process of taking Soviet citizenship, complicated by several factors. Among these factors, the author identifies the causes of age (“Spanish children”), personal (in the case of Spanish pilots interned in French concentration camps or remained on the territory of the USSR at the end of training in Kirovabad flight school) and external (the influence of the Spanish Communist Party, the Soviet bureaucracy) character. In this connection, also raises indirectly the question of citizenship compliance received by the Spaniards, to the basic law that governed the rights and duties of Soviet citizens - 1936 Soviet Constitution.