Cнова в CCCP (Russian: «Снова в СССР», Snova v SSSR, literally "Back in the USSR"; also known as The Russian Album) is the seventh solo studio album by Paul McCartney under his own name, originally released in October 1988 exclusively in the Soviet Union. The album consists entirely of live-in-studio recordings of covers, mainly of rock and roll oldies (similar to John Lennon's 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll). With the addition of an extra track, it was released internationally in 1991.

The title «Снова в СССР» (Snova v SSSR) is Russian for "Back in the U.S.S.R.", the name of a 1968 Beatles song. The first word of the album's title is often mispronounced by English speakers as "Cho-ba" rather than "Sno-va." (The Cyrillic alphabet has a different pronunciation for the characters "С", "H", and "В" than the English alphabet.)

Following the tepid reaction to his 1986 studio album Press to Play, McCartney spent much of the first half of 1987 plotting his next album. In March he recorded an album's worth of songs with producer Phil Ramone but those sessions only produced the single "Once Upon a Long Ago" backed with "Back on My Feet," released only in the United Kingdom that November.

Following a series of jam sessions with various British musicians where they played some of his favourite songs from the 1950s, McCartney decided to record the songs live in the studio. Over the course of two days in July 1987, McCartney recorded twenty songs.

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