Oblasts of Russia
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Category | Federated state |
Location | Russian Federation |
Number | 46 (internationally recognised) |
Populations | 156,996 (Magadan Oblast) – 7,095,120 (Moscow Oblast) |
Areas | 15 100 km2 (Kaliningrad Oblast) - 767 900 km2 (Irkutsk Oblast) |
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Subdivisions |
In Russia, the oblasts are 46 administrative territories; they are one type of federal subject, the highest-level administrative division of Russian territory.[1]: 43
Overview
Oblasts are constituent
The term
Krais, another type of federal subject, are legally identical to oblasts and the difference between a political entity with the name "oblast" and one named "krai" is purely traditional.
History
In the Russian Empire, oblasts were a third-level administrative division, organized in 1849 and few in number, dividing the larger guberniyas (governorates) within the first-level krais. Following the numerous administration reforms during the Soviet era, the number of oblasts gradually increased as they became the primary top-level administrative division of the Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs), the constituent political entities of the Soviet Union. These oblasts held very little autonomy or power, but when the Soviet Union dissolved into sovereign states along the lines of the SSRs, they became the first-level administrative divisions. The oblasts of the Russian SFSR, which transitioned into the Russian Federation, became the first-level administrative divisions of the new country and received greater devolved power.
During the
List
- Amur
- Arkhangelsk
- Astrakhan
- Belgorod
- Bryansk
- Chelyabinsk
- Irkutsk
- Ivanovo
- Kaliningrad
- Kaluga
- Kemerovo
- Kirov
- Kostroma
- Kurgan
- Kursk
- Leningrad
- Lipetsk
- Magadan
- Moscow
- Murmansk
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Novgorod
- Novosibirsk
- Omsk
- Orenburg
- Oryol
- Penza
- Pskov
- Rostov
- Ryazan
- Sakhalin
- Samara
- Saratov
- Smolensk
- Sverdlovsk
- Tambov
- Tomsk
- Tver
- Tula
- Tyumen
- Ulyanovsk
- Vladimir
- Volgograd
- Vologda
- Voronezh
- Yaroslavl
References
- ^ ISBN 9781032469744.
- ^ "U.S. imposes new sanctions over Russia's illegal annexation". The Washington Post. 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.