autonomous oblast

autonomous oblast
One of the administrative divisions of former Soviet Union created for certain “smaller” nations and characterized by following features: they were given an autonomy within a or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an ; had a different from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO.

Unlike the Armenians in the NKAO they are deprived even of those opportunities represented by autonomous oblast status.


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