Source Word
autonomous oblast
Noun
One
of
the
administrative
divisions
of
the
former
Soviet
Union
created
for
certain
“smaller”
nations
and
characterized
by
following
features:
they
were
given
an
autonomy
within
a
union
republic
or,
in
the
RSFSR,
within
a
krai;
had
a
status
lower
than
an
autonomous
republic;
had
a
different
titular
nation
from
that
of
their
union
republic/krai.
Abbreviated
as
AO.
Japanese Meaning
旧ソビエト連邦に存在した行政区分の一種で、特定の小規模な民族のために設立された領域。連邦共和国や、RSFSRの場合はkrai内に位置し、自治共和国よりも下位の地位であり、別の国民集団を対象としていた。
Sense（1）
One
of
the
administrative
divisions
of
the
former
Soviet
Union
created
for
certain
“smaller”
nations
and
characterized
by
following
features:
they
were
given
an
autonomy
within
a
union
republic
or,
in
the
RSFSR,
within
a
krai;
had
a
status
lower
than
an
autonomous
republic;
had
a
different
titular
nation
from
that
of
their
union
republic/krai.
Abbreviated
as
AO.
（ plural ）
