Velikiye Luki Oblast
| Velikiye Luki Oblast Великолукская область |
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| Oblast of Soviet Union | |||||
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| Capital | Velikiye Luki | ||||
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| • | Established | 23 August 1944 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 2 October 1957 | |||
| Political subdivisions | twenty-eight districts | ||||
Coordinates: 56°20′N 30°32′E / 56.333°N 30.533°E
Velikiye Luki (Russian: Великолукская область, Velikolukskaya Oblast) was an oblast (a first-level administrative and municipal unit) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1957. Its seat was in the city of Velikiye Luki. The oblast was located in the northwest of European Russia, and its territory is currently divided between Novgorod, Pskov, and Tver Oblasts.
Velikiye Luki Oblast was established on 22 August 1944, one day before Pskov Oblast, to administrate areas of Soviet Union previously occupied by German troops and liberated in the course of World War II. It included twenty-three districts,
Kholmsky District was transferred from Novgorod Oblast, Belsky, Ilyinsky, and Usvyatsky Districts were transferred from Smolensk Oblast, and other districts were split off from Kalinin Oblast.
On 10 March 1945 four more districts, Podberezinsky (with the administrative center located in Podberezye), Porechensky (Porechye), Prihabsky (Prikhaby), and Zharkovsky (Zharkovsky), were established. In 1948, the center of Prikhabsky District was transferred to the selo of Usmyn, and in 1948, the district was renamed Usmynsky District. In 1952, Ust-Dolyssky District with the center in the selo of Ust-Dolyssy was established.
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