An administrative division or region in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and in some constituent republics of the former Soviet Union.
州（俄罗斯和前苏联某些加盟共和国的行政区划名称）
Example sentencesExamples
The WHO report on multidrug resistance only surveyed two oblasts in the Russian Federation, Ivanovo and Tomsk.
McLure tells us that the Siberian oblast of Tyumen, with 2 percent of Russia's people, yields 65 percent of Russia's oil.
The prison authorities in the oblast targeted the social harm that crime causes.
Ukraine has twenty-four administrative units - oblasts - almost all named for their capitals.
In the 1990s, governors of oblasts (administrative units roughly comparable to states) and presidents of republics acquired significant political autonomy.
Origin
Russian.
Definition of oblast in US English:
oblast
nounˈôbləst
An administrative division or region in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and in some of its former constituent republics.
州（俄罗斯和前苏联某些加盟共和国的行政区划名称）
Example sentencesExamples
Ukraine has twenty-four administrative units - oblasts - almost all named for their capitals.
The WHO report on multidrug resistance only surveyed two oblasts in the Russian Federation, Ivanovo and Tomsk.
In the 1990s, governors of oblasts (administrative units roughly comparable to states) and presidents of republics acquired significant political autonomy.
The prison authorities in the oblast targeted the social harm that crime causes.
McLure tells us that the Siberian oblast of Tyumen, with 2 percent of Russia's people, yields 65 percent of Russia's oil.