Meaning of autonomous oblast | Babel Free

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One of the administrative divisions of the former Soviet Union created for certain “smaller” nations and characterized by following features: they were given an autonomy within a union republic or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an autonomous republic; had a different titular nation from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO.

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“In addition, there were six state archives of autonomous oblasti, nine state archives for national okrugi, and sixteen archives and four branches for the sixteen autonomous republics under the RSFSR.”

“The largest Republic by far, the RSFSR, thus contains within its boundaries no less than sixteen Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, five Autonomous oblasti (Regions) and ten Autonomous okruga (Districts), while the other SSRs include four additional A SSRs and five further Autonomous Regions.”

“The soviet network in 1985 was made up of the USSR Supreme Soviet, fifteen supreme soviets of the union republics, twenty supreme soviets of autonomous republics, 129 krai and oblast soviets, eight soviets of autonomous oblasti, ten soviets of autonomous okruga, 3,113 raion, 2,137 city, 645 town-raion, 3,828 urban-type settlements and 42,176 village Soviets, a total of 52,074 soviets of people’s deputies.”

“Unlike the Armenians in the NKAO they are deprived even of those opportunities represented by autonomous oblast status.”

“During the early Soviet period the territory [Nagorno Karabakh] was placed under control of Soviet Azerbaijan and given the status of autonomous oblast.”

“The autonomous oblast has the rights and bears the obligations of a kray and oblast. The legal status of the autonomous oblast is determined by federal law enacted by the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet in accordance with a representation of the autonomous oblast.”

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