In the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

, oblast

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...

s were considered to be administrative units and were included as parts of Governorates General or 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 ....

s. The majority of then-existing oblasts were located on the periphery of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast

Kars Oblast

Kars Oblast was one of Transcaucasian governorates of Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was in the city of Kars, presently in the Republic of Turkey. The governorate bordered with the Ottoman Empire, Batum Oblast, Tiflis Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and from 1883 to 1903 with...

 or Transcaspian Oblast

Transcaspian Region

Transcaspian Region , or Transcaspia, was the name used from the second half of the 19th century until 1924 for the section of Russian Empire to the east of the Caspian Sea, bounded to the south by Iran's Khorasan Province and Afghanistan, to the north by the former Russian province of Uralsk, and...

) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived.

List

• Amur Oblast
  Amur Oblast
  Amur Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , situated about east of Moscow on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers. It shares its border with the Sakha Republic in the north, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the east, People's Republic of China in the south, and Zabaykalsky...
  
  
• Armenian Oblast
  Armenian Oblast
  The Armenian Oblast or Armenian Province ) was an oblast of the Russian Empire that existed from 1828 to 1840. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, the Iğdır Province of present-day Turkey, and present-day Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave...
  
  
• Batumi Oblast
• Belostok Oblast
  Belostok Oblast
  Belostok Oblast was an administrative division in the Russian Empire. The region had a capital in Belostok .-History:...
  
  
• Bessarabia Oblast
• Don Voisko Oblast
• Dagestan Oblast
• Zabaikalskaya Oblast
• Imeretinskaya Oblast
• Caucasian?
• Kamchatka Oblast
• Kars Oblast
  Kars Oblast
  Kars Oblast was one of Transcaucasian governorates of Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was in the city of Kars, presently in the Republic of Turkey. The governorate bordered with the Ottoman Empire, Batum Oblast, Tiflis Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and from 1883 to 1903 with...
  
  
• Caspian Oblast
• Kwantung Oblast
• Kuban Oblast
• Orenburg Kirgiz
• Omsk Oblast
• Primorskaya Oblast
• Sakhalin
• Taurida
  Taurida Governorate
  The Taurida Governorate or Government of Taurida was a historical governorate of the Russian Empire. It included the Crimean peninsula and the mainland between the lower Dnieper River and the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov It was formed after the defunct Taurida Oblast in was abolished in...
  
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• Tarnopolsky?
• Terek Oblast
• Turgai Oblast
• Ural Oblast
• Yakut Oblast

Oblast

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...

s of Stepnoy Krai

• Aqmola Oblast
• Siberia Kirgiz
• Semipalatinsk Oblast

Oblast

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...

s of Turkestan Krai

• Transcaspian Oblast
• Samarkand Oblast
• Semirechenskaya Oblast
• Syr Darya Oblast
• Turkestan Oblast
• Fergana Oblast

See also

• Oblasts of the Soviet Union
• Oblasts of Russia
  Oblasts of Russia
  The Russian Federation is divided into 83 subjects , of which 46 are oblasts ....
  
  
• Oblasts of Ukraine