English-Finnish translations for autonomous oblast

• autonominen alue

Definition of autonomous oblast

• 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 or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an ; had a different from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO

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