Belastok Voblast

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = Беластоцкая вобласць
Белостокская область
conventional_long_name = Belastok Voblast
common_name = Belastok
subdivision = Voblast
nation = Byelorussian SSR
year_start = 1939
date_start = November
year_end = 1945
date_end = August
p1=Białystok Voivodeship (1919-1939)
flag_p1=Flag of Poland.svg
s1=Białystok Voivodeship (1945-1975)
flag_s1=Flag of Poland.svg
s2 = Hrodna Voblast
flag_s2 = Flag of Byelorussian SSR.svg




image_map_caption = Map of the Byelorussian SSR in 1940 with Belastok Voblast.
capital = Belastok |latd=53 | latm=08 | latNS=N | longd=23 | longm=09 | longEW=E
political_subdiv = Raions: 24

Belastok Voblast or Belostok Oblast ( _be. Беластоцкая вобласць, _ru. Беластокская Область, _pl. Obwód białostocki) was a territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created after the Soviet invasion of Poland and annexation of West Belarus into BSSR in November 1939. The administrative center of the province was the city of Belastok (Polish: "Białystok").

The Voblast consisted of 24 raions.

After the Soviet liberation of the whole territory of Belarus in September 1944, the territory was administered by the BSSR, but according to the Polish-Soviet border treaty in August 1945 17 raions, together with 3 raions of the Brest Voblast were passed on to Poland, without its administrative centre, the remaining raions were annexed into the Hrodna Voblast.

External links

* [http://archives.gov.by/Itd/Adm_del.htm Administrative division of Belarus: a historical information]