Propiska in the Soviet Union

A propiska (Russian: пропи́ска, IPA: [prɐˈpʲiskə] , plural: propiski) was both a written residency permit and a migration-recording tool, used in the Russian Empire before 1917 and in the Soviet Union from 1932 until 1991. The USSR had both permanent (прописка по месту жительства or постоянная прописка) and temporary (временная прописка) propiskas.