Karachay Autonomous Oblast was an

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in the

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created on 26 April 1926. It was formed by the split of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast in 1926,''Encyclopædia Britannica''
/ref> creating Karachay and Cherkess Autonomous Oblast. Karachay Autonomous Oblast was dissolved during World War II, when the Karachay people were exiled to Central Asia for their alleged collaboration with the Germans. During this time, the territory was partitioned between the

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, Cherkess AO,

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and Krasnodar regions. In 1957 it and the Cherkess Autonomous Oblast merged to reinstate the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast.

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