Meanings of oblast in English

The oblast authorities have recently woken up to the gravity of the situation.

Six years later, the area was granted the status of autonomous oblast, or region.

Thus, the Governor of Orenburg has abolished the direct elections of mayors in his oblast.

Tomsk oblast alone (316,000 sq km) is almost as large as the whole of Germany.

In July Russia introduced a special e-visa for tourists to visit Kaliningrad Oblast.

The licence is located in Arbuzovskoye in the Tomsk Oblast region of Russia.

The various oblasts, mini-states and fiefdoms are simply not economically viable on their own.

This is just another marker between two oblasts, and it's just the nothingness of it.

The Irish-headquartered company's operations are focused on two licences in the Tomsk Oblast region of Siberia in Russia.

Instead of fueling pro-Russian sentiments, the Odessa events further mobilised Ukrainians against continued Russian efforts to destabilise key oblasts.

PetroNeft has successfully completed its Licence 61 farmout in the Tomsk Oblast of Western Siberia out to Oil India.

Petroneft owns and operates Licences 61 and 67 in Tomsk Oblast in southwestern Siberia.

Oblasts and krais are run by elected governors (a novelty - governors have been appointed by Yeltsin until 1997).

And this is the marker that divides those two oblasts, they're called, which are from the western one from the eastern one.

The brown animal baffled locals ever since it was taken to an animal shelter in the city of Chelyabinsk in south-central Russia's Cheliabinsk Oblast region.

The company, which is focused on the Tomsk Oblast region in Russia, reported revenue of $1m for the period, according to interim results.