Colonel William A. Phillips

1971 stamp celebrating the Komi ASSR
1981 stamp celebrating the Komi ASSR

The Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Коми Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; Komi: Коми Автономнӧй Сӧветскӧй Социалистическӧй Республика), abbreviated as Komi ASSR (Komi and Russian: Коми АССР), was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union, established in 1936 as successor of Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast.

In 1991, it became the Komi Republic, a federal subject of Russia.

See also

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komi_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic