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Word: oblast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allow me to introduce myself," he said again. "I am chief of the KGB of Gorky Oblast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...state committees. Those entities own and operate 50,000 enterprises and dominate a state-run labor union network of 132 million employees. The tentacles of central planning are duplicated in each of the nation's 15 union republics and 20 autonomous republics, and extend downward to the oblast (province) and raion (local administrative unit) levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking on the Bureaucracy | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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