Northern Oblast (1936-1937)

Coordinates: 64°32′N 40°32′E / 64.533°N 40.533°E / 64.533; 40.533

Северная область Northern Oblast Oblast of Soviet Union 1936–1937 Northern Oblast Capital Arkhangelsk History  - Established December 5 1936  - Disestablished September 23 1937 Political subdivisions 53 district and a national okrug subdivided into three districts

Northern Oblast (Russian: Северная область, Severnaya Oblast) was an oblast (a first-level administrative and municipal unit) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1936 to 1937.^[1] Its seat was in the city of Arkhangelsk. The oblast was located in the North of European Russia, and its territory is currently divided between Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kostroma, and Kirov Oblasts and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The area occupied by Northern Oblast were before 1936 part of the Northern Krai, a vast administrative unit comprising the north of Russia. According to the 1936 Soviet Constitution, the Northern Krai was abolished, and its territory was divided between newly established Northern Oblast and the Komi Republic. The Northern Oblast included 54 districts (including three districts of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug) and was in 1937 split into Arkhangelsk and Vologda Oblasts. Three of the districts of the Northern Oblast, Lalsky, Oparinsky, and Podosinovsky, in 1941 were transferred from Arkhangelsk Oblast to Kirov Oblast. Pavinsky and Vokhomsky District ended up in Kostroma Oblast.

By the 1937 All-Union Census, its population was 2,262,255 persons.^[2]

Districts

The following districts were established in Northern oblast (the administrative centers are given in parentheses),^[1][3]

• Bereznikovsky District (Bereznik);
• Biryakovsky District (Biryakovskoye);
• Chagodoshchensky District (Chagoda);
• Cherevkovsky District (Cherevkovo);
• Chyobsarsky District (Chyobsara);
• Gryazovetsky District (Gryazovets);
• Kargopolsky District (Kargopol);
• Karpogorsky District (Karpogory);
• Kharovsky District (Kharovsk);
• Kholmogorsky District (Kholmogory);
• Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District (Kichmengsky Gorodok);
• Konoshsky District (Konosha);
• Kotlassky District (Kotlas);
• Krasnoborsky District (Krasnoborsk);
• Kubeno-Ozersky District (Kubenskoye);
• Lalsky District (Lalsk);
• Ledengsky District (Ledengskoye);
• Lensky District (Yarensk);
• Leshukonsky District (Leshukonskoye);
• Lezhsky District (Sidorovo);
• Mezensky (Mezen);
• Mezhdurechensky District (Shuyskoye);
• Nikolsky District (Nikolsk);
• Nyuksensky District (Nyuksenitsa);
• Nyandomsky District (Nyandoma);
• Onezhsky District (Onega);
• Oparinsky District (Oparino);
• Pavinsky District (Pavino);
• Pinezhsky District (Pinega);
• Plesetsky District (Plesetsk);
• Podosinovsky District (Podosinovets);
• Primorsky District (Arkhangelsk);
• Priozyorny District (Konyovo);
• Rovdinsky District (Rovdino);
• Roslyatinsky District (Roslyatino);
• Shenkursky District (Shenkursk);
• Sokolsky District (Sokol);
• Syamzhensky District (Yarygino);
• Totemsky District (Totma);
• Ust-Alekseevsky District (Ust-Alekseevo);
• Ust-Kubensky District (Ustye);
• Ustyansky District (Shangaly);
• Velikoustyugsky District (Veliky Ustyug);
• Velsky (Velsk);
• Verkhnetoyemsky District (Verkhnyaya Toyma);
• Verkhovazhsky District (Verkhovazhye);
• Vilegodsky District (Ilyinsko-Podomskoye);
• Vokhomsky District (Vokhma);
• Vozhegodsky District (Vozhega);
• Yemetsky District (Yemetsk).

Three districts belonged to the Nenets National Okrug,

• Bolshezemelsky District (Khoseda-Khard);
• Kanino-Timansky District (Nizhnyaya Pyosha);
• Nizhne-Pechorsky District (Oksino).

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "СПРАВКА ОБ ИЗМЕНЕНИЯХ АДМИНИСТРАТИВНО-ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОГО УСТРОЙСТВА И СЕТИ ПАРТИЙНЫХ И КОМСОМОЛЬСКИХ ОРГАНОВ НА ТЕРРИТОРИИ ВОЛОГОДСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ (1917-1991)" (in Russian). Архивы России. http://www.rusarchives.ru/guide/voanpi/126sia.shtml. Retrieved 22 August 2011. 
2. ^ USSR Population Distribution (1937)
3. ^ "Административно-территориальное деление Архангельской губернии в XVIII-XX вв." (in Russian). Архивы России. 2000. http://guides.rusarchives.ru/browse/guidebook.html?bid=79&sid=185080. Retrieved 25 August 2011.