Oblasts of the Soviet Union

The oblasts of the Soviet Union were second-level entities of the Soviet Union, and first-level entities of the republics of the Soviet Union.

Terminology

Oblast is a Slavic term that exists in the Russian language. Russian was official in all republics.

By location

Baltic region

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In the 1950 there were 10 oblasts in the three Baltic republics.

• 1953-04-28 Law on abolition of Pärnu, Tallin and Tartu oblasts (Estonia)

Moldavian SSR

• first-level entities were raions (districts)

List

Oblast	Republic	Established	Dissolved
Riga Oblast	Latvian SSR
Pärnu Oblast	Estonian SSR		1953-04-28
Tallin Oblast	Estonian SSR		1953-04-28
Tartu Oblast	Estonian SSR		1953-04-28
Vilnius Oblast	Lithuanian SSR
Kaunas Oblast	Lithuanian SSR
Central Black Earth Oblast	RSFSR		1934-06-13
Chita Oblast	RSFSR
Crimean Oblast	RSFSR
East Siberian Oblast	RSFSR
Grozny Oblast	RSFSR
Irkutsk Oblast	RSFSR
Kuban-Black Sea Oblast	RSFSR
Northern Oblast (1936–37)	RSFSR
Ural Oblast	RSFSR
Velikiye Luki Oblast	RSFSR
Western Oblast	RSFSR