Khabarovsk Oblast () was an administrative division (an ''

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'') of the

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which existed between 1934 and 1939. Its seat was in the city of

Khabarovsk Khabarovsk ( ) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the China–Russia border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, about north of Vladivostok. As of the 2021 Russian c ...

. The oblast was located in the eastern part of the

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, and its territory is currently divided between

and Primorsky Krais. The oblast was created as part of the

Far Eastern Krai Far Eastern Krai () was a krai of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic of the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1938. Its capital was Khabarovsk. It was the largest administrative-territorial unit of the Soviet Union after the Yakut Autonomous ...

and briefly became part of the newly created Khabarovsk Krai when the former was abolished in 1938, before being merged into the latter.

History

Khabarovsk Oblast was created as part of the

by a resolution of the

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(VTsIK) on 22 July 1934, with its seat in the city of

. It was subdivided into seven districts (

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s): Bikinsky, Vyazemsky, Kalininsky, Komsomolsky, Kur-Urminsky National, Nanaysky National, and Khabarovsky. The oblast had a population of 264,000 in 1934 and included an area of . A VTsIK resolution of 25 January 1935 created Verinsky District (

Lazovsky District Lazovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #136-KZ district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai on the eastern slopes of the Sikhote-Alin mountain range a ...

from 1 April) from part of Vyazemsky District, and Novopokrovsky District (Postyshevsky District from 20 February 1935 and Krasnoarmeysky District from 20 March 1938). Komsomolsky District was abolished on 27 May and Khabarovsky followed on 31 December. Khabarovsky District was reestablished by a VTSiK resolution of 31 May 1937. On 20 October 1938 the oblast became part of

Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is located in the Russian Far East and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The administrative centre of the krai is the types of ...

when the Far Eastern Krai was abolished and its territory split, except for the Kalininsky and Krasnoarmeysky Districts, which joined

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. Bikinsky District was simultaneously abolished, with 26 of its

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s being transferred to Primorsky Krai, and the remaining thirteen joining Vyazemsky District. The oblast was abolished by a decree of the

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on 26 May, with its districts directly administered by Khabarovsk Krai.

References

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