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 The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were National delimitation in the Soviet Union, national-based administrative units of ...

Terminology

Oblast is a Slavic term that exists in the

Russian language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European langua ...

. 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) * 1953-04-25 Law on abolition of Riga, Daugavpils and Liepāja oblasts (Latvia) * 1953-05-28 Law on abolition of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai oblasts (Lithuania)

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) * 1953-04-23 Law on abolition of Kutaisi and Tbilisi oblasts (Georgia)

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{{Soviet Union topics Subdivisions of the Soviet Union