Yekaterinburg used to be named Sverdlovsk, after the communist revolutionary, Yakov Sverdlov. The oblast that it is in is still called "Sverdlovsk Oblast".
Source: tatoeba (3484581)
Oblast
//ˈɒblæst//
Synonyms for "oblast" (32 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (16)
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Translations
84 translations across 69 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аабласт noun (region or province)
Afrikaans
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Arabic
1 entries- أُوبْلَاسْت noun (region or province)
Armenian
2 entries- մարզ noun (region or province)
- շրջան noun (region or province)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- vilayət noun (region or province)
Bashkir
1 entries- өлкә noun (region or province)
Basque
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Belarusian
2 entries- во́бласць noun (region or province)
- во́бласьць noun (region or province)
Bulgarian
1 entries- о́бласт noun (region or province)
Buryat
1 entries- можо noun (region or province)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- о́бласть noun (region or province)
Catalan
1 entries- óblast noun (region or province)
Chechen
2 entries- латтдоза noun (region or province)
- область noun (region or province)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 州 noun (region or province)
Chuvash
1 entries- облаҫӗ noun (region or province)
Classical Mongolian
2 entries- ᠣᠪᠯᠠᠰᠲ᠋ᠢ noun (region or province)
- ᠮᠤᠵᠢ noun (region or province)
Czech
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Danish
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Dutch
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Esperanto
1 entries- oblasto noun (region or province)
Estonian
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Finnish
2 entries- alue noun (region or province)
- oblasti noun (region or province)
French
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Georgian
3 entries- მხარე noun (region or province)
- ობლასტი noun (region or province)
- ოლქი noun (region or province)
German
1 entries- Oblast noun (region or province)
Greek
1 entries- όμπλαστ noun (region or province)
Hebrew
1 entries- אובלסט noun (region or province)
Hindi
1 entries- ओब्लास्त noun (region or province)
Hungarian
3 entries- körzet noun (region or province)
- régió noun (region or province)
- terület noun (region or province)
Indonesian
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Ingrian
1 entries- oblasti noun (region or province)
Italian
1 entries- oblast' noun (region or province)
Japanese
1 entries- オーブラスチ noun (region or province)
Javanese
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Kabardian
2 entries- област noun (region or province)
- хэку noun (region or province)
Kalmyk
2 entries- муҗ noun (region or province)
- төгәлң noun (region or province)
Kazakh
1 entries- облыс noun (region or province)
Komi-Permyak
1 entries- лапӧв noun (region or province)
Korean
1 entries- 오블라스티 noun (region or province)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- облус noun (region or province)
Macedonian
1 entries- о́бласт noun (region or province)
Mongolian
2 entries- муж noun (region or province)
- ᠮᠤᠵᠢ noun (region or province)
Nogai
1 entries- уьлке noun (region or province)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Norwegian
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- оболость noun (region or province)
Ossetian
1 entries- облӕст noun (region or province)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- обласц noun (region or province)
Persian
1 entries- ابلاست noun (region or province)
Polish
1 entries- obwód noun (region or province)
Portuguese
1 entries- óblast noun (region or province)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਆਬਲਸਤ noun (region or province)
Romanian
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Russian
1 entries- о́бласть noun (region or province)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ȍblāst noun (region or province)
- о̏бла̄ст noun (region or province)
Slovak
1 entries- oblasť noun (region or province)
Slovene
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Spanish
1 entries- óblast noun (region or province)
Swedish
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Tajik
1 entries- вилоят noun (region or province)
Tatar
1 entries- өлкә noun (region or province)
Turkish
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Turkmen
1 entries- welaýat noun (region or province)
Udmurt
1 entries- улос noun (region or province)
Ukrainian
1 entries- о́бласть noun (region or province)
Uzbek
2 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
- viloyat noun (region or province)
Vietnamese
1 entries- oblast noun (region or province)
Yakut
1 entries- уобалас noun (region or province)
Yiddish
2 entries- אָבלאַסט noun (region or province)
- געגנט noun (region or province)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast borders China.
Source: tatoeba (9950194)
There aren't many Jews left in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
Source: tatoeba (11902421)
The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast, the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 oblasts, 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.
Source: wiktionary
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