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Oblast vs Yaroslavl - What's the difference?

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oblast

English

(wikipedia oblast)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.
  • * 1979 , Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed , page 483,
  • The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast', the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 ' oblasts , 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.
  • * 2002 , Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance , page 119,
  • It is important to note, however, that the general pattern of Nizhnii Novgorod oblast' at the top and Tiumen' and Yaroslavl' ' oblasts in the middle, with Saratov at the bottom, occurred too often across all indicators to assume that even those differences in means that were not significant at a .05 confidence level or better occurred merely by chance.
  • * 2010 , Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise , page 194,
  • Almaty oblast' (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's ' oblasts , at just 22.2 percent urban.

    Derived terms

    * autonomous oblast

    See also

    * krai

    Anagrams

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    yaroslavl

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A city in Russia.
  • A Russian oblast.