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autonomous oblasti

autonomous oblasti is the plural of autonomous oblast.

Meaning of autonomous oblast

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)...
    Synonyms:
    AO

Questions about autonomous oblasti

What is autonomous oblasti the plural of?
Autonomous oblasti is the plural of autonomous oblast.

Words near autonomous oblasti in the dictionary

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

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