Drohobych Oblast
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Drohobych Oblast (Ukrainian: Дрогобицька область, Drohobyts'ka oblast’), (December 4, 1939—June 21, 1959) was an oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. It had a territory of 9.6 thousands of km³, and population of 853 thousand (as of 1956).
[edit] History
Drohobych Oblast was one of six oblasts (which were Lviv Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) Oblast, Tarnopil (Ternopil) Oblast, Volyn Oblast) organized on the territory of West Ukraine following the 1939 invasion of Poland.
Initially, in February of 1940, the oblast was administratively subdivided into 30 raions. In December of the same year Boryslavskyi Raion was liquidated and two raions were reorganized.
After the oblast was retaken from German occupants in the course of World War II, in March of 1945, Birchanskyi, Liskivskyi, and a part of Peremyshlskyi Raion (including Peremyshl city) were transferred to Poland. In 1948, Medykivskyi Raion was transferred to Poland. In 1951, Nyzhnie-Ustrytskyi Raion was given to Poland. In 1957 and 1959, four raions of the oblast were liquidated.
In May of 1959, Drohobych Oblast was liquidated and merged into Lviv Oblast. This was the last major territorial change in the administrative subdivision of Ukraine on oblast level. At the time of liquidation the oblast consisted of 20 raions, and 4 cities of oblast subordinance (Boryslav, Drohobych, Sambor, Stryi).
[edit] External links
- Drohobych Oblast. World historical portal. (amateurs site) (Russian)
