Far Eastern Krai

Krai

Krai or kray was a type of an administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, and is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia ....

or Far Eastern Territory was an administrative subdivision of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic during 1926-1938.

The terms may also informally refer to Russian Far East

Russian Far East

Russian Far East is a term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i.e., extreme east parts of Russia, between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean...

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History

After the abolition of the buffer state

Buffer state

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 of Far Eastern Republic

Far Eastern Republic

The Far Eastern Republic , sometimes called the Chita Republic, was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East...

 in 1922 the Far Eastern Area was established with capital Chita (since 1924 the capital was Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

), which included the lands of FER and Amurskaya, Transbaikalskaya, Kamchatskaya, Priamurskaya, Primorskaya (with northern part of Sakhalin island) guberniya

Guberniya

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s (provinces). It also had right of way by the Chinese Eastern Railway

Chinese Eastern Railway

The Chinese Eastern Railway or was a railway in northeastern China . It connected Chita and the Russian Far East. English-speakers have sometimes referred to this line as the Manchurian Railway...

. Geographically, it was an easternmost area of Asia

Asia

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n Russia, bounded by the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

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, the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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 (Sea of Okhotsk

Sea of Okhotsk

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 and Sea of Japan

Sea of Japan

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), and by China

China

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In 1926 the division of RSFSR in guberniyas was abolished, and the Far Eastern Area was reorganized into the Far Eastern Krai with Amurski, Vladivostokski, Zeiski, Kamchatski, Nikolaevski, Sakhalinski, Sretenski, Khabarovski, Chitinski districts.

On October 20, 1938 the Far Eastern Krai was subdivided into the Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Russian Far East. It lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, but also occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the Pacific Ocean. The administrative center of the krai is the...

 and Primorski Krai.