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13-450: The district is located in the western central part of the oblast . The area of the district is 5,400 square kilometers (2,100 sq mi). Lakes Chany , Sartlan and Tandovo lie in the district. Within the framework of administrative divisions , Barabinsky District is one of the thirty in the oblast. The town of Barabinsk serves as its administrative center , despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with

26-598: A few exceptions, Soviet oblasts were named after their administrative centers. In 1922, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was divided into 33 administrative divisions also called oblasts . In 1929, oblasts were replaced with larger administrative units known as banovinas . During the Yugoslav Wars , several Serb Autonomous Oblasts were formed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia . These oblasts were later merged into

39-528: The Arabic language term wilāya ( ولاية ). Subdivisions of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia#Oblasts (1922–1929) The subdivisions of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes ) existed successively in three different forms. From 1918 to 1922, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia maintained the pre- World War I subdivisions of Yugoslavia's predecessor states. In 1922,

52-594: The Republic of Serbian Krajina and the Republika Srpska . Since 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 oblasts, usually translated as "provinces". Before, the country was divided into just nine units, also called oblasts. Oblasts are further subdivided into raions ( districts ), ranging in number from 3 to 10 per entity. Viloyat and welaýat are derived from the Turkish language term vilayet , itself derived from

65-627: The new Yugoslav Constitution . The banates (banovinas) were as follows: The City of Belgrade , together with Zemun and Pančevo was also an administrative unit independent of the surrounding Danube Banovina . As an accommodation to Croatian politicians in the Cvetković-Maček Agreement , the Banovina of Croatia ( Banovina Hrvatska ) was formed in 1939 from a merger of the Littoral and Sava Banovinas, with some additional territory from

78-461: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes as a unitary state and, in 1922, 33 new administrative oblasts (counties) ruled from the centre were instituted. These bore no relation to the earlier divisions and, in the interest of promoting Yugoslavism , statism and multiculturalism , were not given any ethnic or national names. They were largely named after rivers, regions and cities from which they were administered. They were unpopular in parts of

91-636: The Soviet Union electrification program under the GOELRO plan , Ivan Alexandrov , as director of the Regionalisation Committee of Gosplan , divided the Soviet Union into thirteen European and eight Asiatic oblasts, using rational economic planning rather than "the vestiges of lost sovereign rights". The names of oblasts did not usually correspond to the names of the respective historical regions, as they were created as purely administrative units. With

104-518: The country since their formation, which led to the creation of banates . From 1929, the kingdom was subdivided into nine new provinces or banates called banovinas . Their borders were intentionally drawn so that they would not correspond either to boundaries between ethnic groups, or to pre- World War I imperial borders. Except for the Littoral Banovina, they were named after major rivers. Slight changes to their borders were made in 1931 with

117-517: The periphery of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast ) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived. In the Soviet Union , oblasts were one of the types of administrative divisions of the union republics . As any administrative units of this level, oblasts were composed of districts ( raions ) and cities/towns directly under oblasts' jurisdiction. Some oblasts also included autonomous entities called autonomous okrugs . Because of

130-613: The prefix oб- (cognate with Classical Latin ob 'towards, against' and Ancient Greek ἐπί/ἔπι epi 'in power, in charge') and the stem власть vlastǐ 'power, rule'. In Old East Slavic, it was used alongside оболость obolostǐ —the equivalent of об- 'against' and волость 'territory, state, power' (cognate with English 'wield'; see volost ). In the Russian Empire , oblasts were considered to be administrative units and were included as parts of Governorates General or krais . The majority of then-existing oblasts were on

143-575: The state was divided into 33 oblasts or provinces and, in 1929, a new system of nine banates (in Serbo-Croatian , the word for "banate" is banovina ) was implemented. From 1918 to 1922, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes continued to be subdivided into the pre-World War I divisions of Austria-Hungary and the formerly independent kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro . Provinces ( pokrajine ) were: These were subdivided into districts and counties: The Vidovdan Constitution of 1921 established

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156-573: The status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the district is incorporated as Barabinsky Municipal District , with the Town of Barabinsk being incorporated within it as Barabinsk Urban Settlement. Oblast An oblast ( / ˈ ɒ b l æ s t / or / ˈ ɒ b l ɑː s t / ) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states , including Belarus , Russia and Ukraine . Historically, it

169-496: Was used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union . The term oblast is often translated into English as 'region' or 'province'. In some countries, oblasts are also known by cognates of the Russian term. The term oblast is borrowed from Russian область ( pronounced [ˈobɫəsʲtʲ] ), where it is inherited from Old East Slavic , in turn borrowed from Church Slavonic область oblastĭ 'power, empire', formed from

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