oblast

/ˈɒblæst/

oblast noun: a region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.

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Noun

oblast (plural oblasts or oblasti)

A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.
- The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast, the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 oblasts, 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the...1979, Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed, page 483
- It is important to note, however, that the general pattern of Nizhnii Novgorod oblast at the top and Tiumen' and Yaroslavl' oblasts in the middle, with Saratov at the bottom, occurred too often across all indicators to assume that even those differences in means that were not significant at a .05...2002, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance, page 119

oblast meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi

oblast in Hindi

region or province: ओब्लास्त oblāst

oblast in Urdu

region or province: اوبْلاسْت oblāst

oblast in Bengali

region or province: ওব্লাস্ট ōblasṭ

oblast in Punjabi

region or province: ਆਬਲਸਤ ābalsat

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oblast in Tagalog: oblast
oblast in Arabic: أُوبْلَاسْت ʔūblāst
oblast in Malay: oblast
oblast in Indonesian: oblast
oblast in Vietnamese: oblast

Examples of oblast in a sentence

The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast, the krai, or the autonomous republic.1979, Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed, page 483:
Almaty oblast (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's oblasts, at just 22.2 percent urban.2010, Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise, page 194:

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Forms of oblast

plural	oblasts
plural	oblasti

Plural of oblast: oblasts or oblasti

Origin of oblast

From a Slavic language, probably Russian о́бласть (óblastʹ, “region, province”), borrowed from Old Church Slavonic область (oblastĭ), from Proto-Slavic *obolstь, from earlier *obvolstь, *obvoldtь, a compound of *o(b)- (“over”) + *volstь (“rule, power, authority”), thus originally probably meaning "a region ruled over". Compare Proto-Slavic *obvoldati (“to rule”).

Words formed from oblast

Phrases with oblast

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Questions about oblast

What does oblast mean?: Oblast means a region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.
What is oblast in Hindi?: Oblast in Hindi is ओब्लास्त (oblāst). See Oblast meaning in Hindi.
How do you use oblast in a sentence?: The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast, the krai, or the autonomous republic.
What part of speech is oblast?: Oblast is a noun.
How do you pronounce oblast?: Oblast is pronounced /ˈɒblæst/.
What is the plural of oblast?: The plural of oblast is oblasts.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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