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Oblasts of the Soviet Union

Oblasts of the Soviet Union

Administrative unit in the Soviet Union

The oblasts of the Soviet Union were second-level administrative units of the Soviet Union, and first-level entities of the republics of the Soviet Union.

Terminology

Oblast is a Slavic term that exists in the Russian language. Russian was official in all republics along with national languages of other republics.

By location

Baltic region

In the 1950s there were 10 oblasts in the three Baltic republics.

  • 1953-04-28 Law on abolition of Pärnu, Tallinn and Tartu oblasts (Estonia) [1]
  • 1953-04-25 Law on abolition of Riga, Daugavpils and Liepāja oblasts (Latvia) [2]
  • 1953-05-28 Law on abolition of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai oblasts (Lithuania) [3]

Transcaucasian region

In the 1950s there were 4 oblasts in the two Transcaucasian republics (only in Azerbaijan and Georgia).

  • 1953-04-23 Law on abolition of Baku and Ganja oblasts (Azerbaijan) [4]
  • 1953-04-23 Law on abolition of Kutaisi and Tbilisi oblasts (Georgia) [5]

List

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 28.04.1953 об упразднении Пярнуской, Таллинской и Тартуской областей Эстонской ССР — Викитека". ru.wikisource.org.
  2. [2]
    "Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 25.04.1953 об упразднении Рижской, Даугавпилсской и Лиепайской областей Латвийской ССР — Викитека". ru.wikisource.org.
  3. [3]
    "Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 28.05.1953 об упразднении Вильнюсской, Каунасской, Клайпедской и Шяуляйской областей Литовской ССР — Викитека". ru.wikisource.org.
  4. [4]
    "Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 23.04.1953 о ликвидации Бакинской и Гянджинской областей Азербайджанской ССР — Викитека". ru.wikisource.org.
  5. [5]
    "Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 23.04.1953 о ликвидации Кутаисской и Тбилисской областей Грузинской ССР — Викитека". ru.wikisource.org.

Notes

  1. [n 1]
    Dissolved in 2008 as an oblast of Russia
  2. [n 2]
    Still exists
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