Oblasts of the Russian Empire
Administrative unit in the Russian Empire
- 1849
- 1917 (inherited by the Soviet regime)
- uyezds (counties)
Oblasts in the Russian Empire were considered to be administrative units and were included as parts of Governorates General or krais. The majority of then-existing oblasts were located on the periphery of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived.
List
- Amur Oblast
- Armenian Oblast
- Batum Oblast
- Belostok Oblast
- Bessarabia Oblast
- Don Voisko Oblast
- Dagestan Oblast
- Zabaikalskaya Oblast
- Imeretinskaya Oblast
- Caucasian
- Kamchatka Oblast
- Kars Oblast
- Caspian Oblast (1840-1846)
- Kwantung Oblast
- Kuban Oblast
- Orenburg Kirgiz
- Omsk Oblast
- Primorskaya Oblast
- Sakhalin
- Taurida Oblast (1783-1796), annexation of the Crimean Khanate
- Tarnopolsky
- Terek Oblast
- Turgay Oblast
- Ural Oblast
- Yakut Oblast
- Akmolinsk Oblast
- Siberia Kirgiz
- Semipalatinsk Oblast
- Transcaspian Oblast
- Samarkand Oblast
- Syr-Darya Oblast
- Turkestan Oblast
- Fergana Oblast
- Semirechye Oblast
See also
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(List)
- Azov¹
- *Altai²
- Arkhangelsk
- Archangelgorod
- Astrakhan
- Belgorod
- Bessarabia
- Bratslav
- Belarus
- Caucasus
- Chernigov
- Grodno
- Finland
- Iziaslav
- Ingermanland
- Irkutsk
- Kazan
- Kaluga
- Kiev (1708)
- Kiev
- Kharkov
- Kherson
- Kholm
- Kovno
- Kolyvan
- Kostroma
- Kursk
- Lithuania
- Little Russia (1764)
- Little Russia (1796)
- Minsk
- Mogilev
- Moscow
- Nikolayev
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Novgorod-Seversky
- Novgorod
- Novorossiya
- Olonets
- Orenburg
- Oryol
- Penza
- Perm
- *Petrograd²
- Podolia
- Polotsk
- Poltava
- Pskov
- Ryazan
- Samara
- Saint Petersburg
- Saratov
- Siberia
- Simbirsk
- Sloboda Ukraine
- Slonim
- Smolensk
- Stavropol
- Taurida
- Tambov
- Tver
- Tobolsk
- Tomsk
- Tula
- Ufa
- Vilna
- Vitebsk
- Vladimir
- Voznesensk
- Vologda
- Volhynia
- Voronezh
- Vyatka
- Vyborg
- Yaroslavl
- Yekaterinoslav
- Yeniseysk
- Amur
- Belostok
- Bessarabia
- Don Host
- Transbaikal
- Kamchatka
- Caspian
- Kwantung
- Orenburg Kirgiz
- Omsk
- Primorskaya
- Sakhalin
- Taurida
- Tarnopol
- Turgay
- Ural
- Yakut
- Akmolinsk
- Siberia Kirgiz
- Semipalatinsk
Galicia and Bukovina
- Lvov
- Peremyshl
- Tarnopol
- Chernovtsy
- Bukey Horde
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Khanate of Kokand
- Russian America
- *Uryankhay Krai²
- Khanate of Khiva
- Zeravshan Okrug
¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914.
² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914.
³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.
² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914.
³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.
