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unusual facts about Western Oblast


Western Oblast

On November 20 of the same year Grinyovsky, Kardymovsky, and Katynsky Districts were abolished and merged into Smolensky District.



see also

Administrative divisions of Pskov Oblast

Rykovsky District (the selo of Skokovo), established in 1927, Leningrad Oblast, since 1929 in Western Oblast, abolished in 1930, split between Nasvinsky, Loknyansky, Novosokolnichesky, and Pustoshkinsky Districts;

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

During the autumn 1917/winter of 1918, the Western Oblast was headed by Aleksandr Myasnikyan as head of the Western Oblast's Military Revolutionary Committee, who passed this duty on to Karl Lander.