Crimean Oblast
| Crimean Oblast Кримська область Крымская область | |||||||||
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| Oblast of the Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR | |||||||||
| 1945–1991 | |||||||||
 Map of the Ukrainian SSR (light blue) with Crimean Oblast (red). | |||||||||
| Capital | Simferopol | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 26,100 km2 (10,100 sq mi) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Created from the Crimean ASSR | June 30, 1945 1945 | ||||||||
• Transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR | February 19, 1954 | ||||||||
• Autonomy restored | February 12, 1992 1992 | ||||||||
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The Crimean Oblast ([Кримська область, translit: Kryms’ka oblast’] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help); [Крымская область, translit: Krymskaya oblast’] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), Crimean Tatar: Qırım vilâyeti) was an oblast (province) of the former Russian SFSR (1945–1954) and Ukrainian SSR (1954–1991), which was at the time part of the Soviet Union. Its capital was the city of Simferopol.
The Crimean Oblast was created from the newly abolished Crimean ASSR on June 30, 1945. The oblast was then transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR on February 19, 1954 (for more information see: History of Crimea: Crimea in the Soviet Union: 1922–1991).
Following a referendum held on January 20, 1991 the Crimean Oblast was upgraded to that of an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on February 12, 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.[1] Today it is officially named the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
See also
References
- ^ "Day in history - 20 January". RIA Novosti (in Russian). 2006. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 6, 2007.
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