autonomous oblast

autonomous oblast

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: au‧to‧no‧mous‧ob‧last

Noun

autonomous oblast (plural autonomous oblasts)

1. One of the administrative divisions of the former Soviet Union created for certain “smaller” nations and characterized by following features: they were given an autonomy within a union republic or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an autonomous republic; had a different titular nation from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO.
   • 1989, Daily report: Soviet Union, Issues 181-186, p. 75

     Unlike the Armenians in the NKAO they are deprived even of those opportunities represented by autonomous oblast status.

   • 1992, Rachel Denber, Robert K. Goldman, Helsinki Watch, Bloodshed in the Caucasus: escalation of the armed conflict in Nagorno Karabakh, p. vii

     During the early Soviet period the territory [Nagorno Karabakh] was placed under control of Soviet Azerbaijan and given the status of autonomous oblast.

   • 1992, Draft Constitution of the Russian Federation, Article 81

     The autonomous oblast has the rights and bears the obligations of a kray and oblast. The legal status of the autonomous oblast is determined by federal law enacted by the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet in accordance with a representation of the autonomous oblast.

Usage notes

Currently there is only one autonomous oblast surviving in Russia, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

Derived terms

• Adyghe Autonomous Oblast
• Chechen Autonomous Oblast
• Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Oblast
• Cherkess Autonomous Oblast
• Chuvash Autonomous Oblast
• Ingush Autonomous Oblast
• Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast
• Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
• Oyrot Autonomous Oblast
• South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast

 

Translations

autonomous entity in the Soviet Union and Russia — See also translations at AO

Armenian: ինքնավար մարզ (inkʿnavar marz) Belarusian: аўтано́мная во́бласць f (aŭtanómnaja vóblascʹ) Bulgarian: автоно́мна о́бласт f (avtonómna óblast) Chinese: Mandarin: 自治州 (zh) (zìzhìzhōu) Finnish: autonominen alue Hungarian: autonóm terület, autonóm körzet, autonóm régió Japanese: 自治州 (じちしゅう, jichishū) Korean: 자치주(自治州) (jachiju) Macedonian: автономна област f (avtonomna oblast) Mongolian: Cyrillic: өөртөө засах муж (öörtöö zasax muž) Polish: obwód autonomiczny m Russian: автоно́мная о́бласть (ru) f (avtonómnaja óblastʹ), АО́ (ru) f (AÓ) Ukrainian: автоно́мна о́бласть f (avtonómna óblastʹ) Yiddish: אַווטאָנאָמע געגנט‎ f (avtonome gegnt)

See also

• autonomous republic
• autonomous okrug

Further reading

• autonomous oblast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia