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Transbaikal Oblast Забайкальская область (Russian) | |||||||||
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Oblast of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
1851/1920–1917/1922 | |||||||||
Transbaikal Oblast within the Russian Empire | |||||||||
Capital | Nerchinsk, then Chita | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• | 613,000 km2 (237,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
672,037 | |||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1851/1920 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1917/1922 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai |
The Transbaikal Oblast (Russian: Забайкальская область) was a province (oblast) of the Russian Empire, in what is now Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai. The oblast was created out of the territory of the Irkutsk Governorate in 1851, and was dissolved in 1917, it was briefly re-established from 1920 to 1922 before it was succeeded by the Transbaikal Governorate.