Organised similarly on a territorial basis, their tasks were formulated as follows: ‘they should know by whom party propaganda is being conducted in the corresponding oblasti and kraia,[…]’
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Krai
//kɹaɪ̯//
Synonyms for "krai"
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Translations
28 translations across 27 languages.
Altay
1 entries- кырай noun (a region or province in Russia)
Belarusian
1 entries- край noun (a region or province in Russia)
Bengali
1 entries- ক্রাই noun (a region or province in Russia)
Bulgarian
1 entries- край noun (a region or province in Russia)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 邊疆區 /边疆区 noun (a region or province in Russia)
Czech
1 entries- kraj noun (a region or province in Russia)
Finnish
1 entries- aluepiiri noun (a region or province in Russia)
French
1 entries- kraï noun (a region or province in Russia)
Greek
1 entries- κράι noun (a region or province in Russia)
Hindi
1 entries- क्राय noun (a region or province in Russia)
Hungarian
1 entries- határterület noun (a region or province in Russia)
Japanese
1 entries- クライ noun (a region or province in Russia)
Kazakh
1 entries- өлке noun (a region or province in Russia)
Korean
1 entries- 크라이 noun (a region or province in Russia)
Macedonian
1 entries- крај noun (a region or province in Russia)
Polish
1 entries- kraj noun (a region or province in Russia)
Portuguese
1 entries- krai noun (a region or province in Russia)
Romanian
1 entries- kraină noun (a region or province in Russia)
Russian
1 entries- край noun (a region or province in Russia)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- krȃj noun (a region or province in Russia)
- кра̑ј noun (a region or province in Russia)
Slovak
1 entries- kraj noun (a region or province in Russia)
Slovene
1 entries- kraj noun (a region or province in Russia)
Spanish
1 entries- krai noun (a region or province in Russia)
Tatar
1 entries- өлкә noun (a region or province in Russia)
Turkish
1 entries- kray noun (a region or province in Russia)
Ukrainian
1 entries- край noun (a region or province in Russia)
Yakut
1 entries- кыраай noun (a region or province in Russia)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
For example, in 1937 there were 11 union republics, 39 oblasti and kraia, 22 autonomous republics, 52 autonomous regions and okrugs, 3307 districts and 62,484 village soviets (Davies et al. 2003, xviii).
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The heads of the newly established kraia within the RSFSR were in a rather privileged position. Nikolai Eizmont, party secretary in what would become North Caucasus Krai, laid claim to about 15,000 square versta (17,000 square kilometers) with approximately 600,000 inhabitants in eastern Ukraine.
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