Western Oblast

54°47′N 32°03′E / 54.783°N 32.050°E / 54.783; 32.050

Western Oblast
Западная область
Oblast of the Russian SFSR
1929–1937
CapitalSmolensk
Population 
• 1937
4,693,495
History 
• Established
1 October 1929
• Disestablished
27 September 1937
Political subdivisionsdistricts

Western Oblast (Russian: Западная область, romanizedZapadnaya oblast) was an administrative-territorial unit (oblast) of the Russian SFSR from 1929 to 1937. Its seat was in the city of Smolensk. The oblast was located in the west of European Russia, and its territory is currently divided between Bryansk, Kaluga, Pskov, Smolensk, and Tver Oblasts.[1]

By the 1937 All-Union Census, the population of the oblast was 4,693,495 persons.[2] It was abolished on 27 September 1937.

  1. ^ Парфенов, Борис; Ольга Хоренженкова. К истории формирования Смоленской области (in Russian). Журнал Смоленск. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  2. ^ USSR Population Distribution (1937)