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autonomous oblast

Syllables: au·to·no·mous·ob·last

autonomous oblast noun: in the former Soviet Union, a lower-status autonomous unit below an autonomous republic, typically established for a smaller titular nationality and nested inside a union republic, or in the RSFSR, inside a krai.

Noun

autonomous oblast (plural autonomous oblasts or autonomous oblasti)

  1. (historical) In the former Soviet Union, a lower-status autonomous unit below an autonomous republic, typically established for a smaller titular nationality and nested inside a union republic, or in the RSFSR, inside a krai.
    • 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.1972, Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, “The Organization of Repositories: State Archives”, in Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Moscow and Leningrad (Studies of the Russian Institute)...
    • 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.1984, Peter Worsley, “Pluralism: Internationalism and Multinationalism”, in The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, section IV (Ethnicity and...
    Synonyms:
    AO

Examples of autonomous oblast in a sentence

  • Unlike the Armenians in the NKAO they are deprived even of those opportunities represented by autonomous oblast status.1989, Daily report: Soviet Union, Issues 181-186, p. 75
  • During the early Soviet period the territory [Nagorno Karabakh] was placed under control of Soviet Azerbaijan and given the status of autonomous oblast.1992, Rachel Denber, Robert K. Goldman, Helsinki Watch, Bloodshed in the Caucasus: escalation of the armed conflict in Nagorno Karabakh...
  • The autonomous oblast has the rights and bears the obligations of a kray and oblast.1992, Draft Constitution of the Russian Federation, Article 81

Synonyms of autonomous oblast

Forms of autonomous oblast

pluralautonomous oblasts
pluralautonomous oblasti

Words formed from autonomous oblast

Questions about autonomous oblast

What does autonomous oblast mean?
Autonomous oblast means in the former Soviet Union, a lower-status autonomous unit below an autonomous republic, typically established for a smaller titular nationality and nested inside a union republic, or in the RSFSR, inside a krai.
How do you use autonomous oblast in a sentence?
Unlike the Armenians in the NKAO they are deprived even of those opportunities represented by autonomous oblast status.
What part of speech is autonomous oblast?
Autonomous oblast is a noun.
What is the plural of autonomous oblast?
The plural of autonomous oblast is autonomous oblasts.

Words near autonomous oblast in the dictionary

  1. autonomizes
  2. autonomizing
  3. autonomous
  4. autonomous communities
  5. autonomous community
  6. autonomous oblast
  7. autonomous oblasti
  8. autonomous oblasts
  9. autonomous okrug
  10. autonomous okruga
  11. autonomous okrugs

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