Drohobych Oblast

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Дрогобицька область
Drohobych Oblast

Oblast of Ukrainian SSR

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Map of the Ukrainian SSR oblasts during 1946-1954.

Capital

Drohobych
49°21′N, 23°30′E

History

- Established

December 4, 1939

- Abolished and merged into Lviv Oblast

June 21, 1959

Area

- 1956

9,600 km² (3,707 sq mi)

Population

- 1956 est.

853,000

Density

88.9 /km² (230.1 /sq mi)

Drohobych Oblast (Ukrainian: Дрогобицька область, Drohobyts'ka oblast’), (December 4, 1939—June 21, 1959) was an oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. It had a territory of 9.6 thousands of km³, and population of 853 thousand (as of 1956).

[edit] History

Drohobych Oblast was one of six oblasts (the other five are Lviv Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) Oblast, Tarnopil (Ternopil) Oblast, and Volyn Oblast) established on the territory of West Ukraine following the 1939 invasion of Poland.

Initially, in February of 1940, the oblast was administratively subdivided into 30 raions. In December of the same year Boryslavskyi Raion was abolished and two raions were reorganized.

After the oblast was retaken from German occupation during World War II, in March 1945, Birchanskyi, Liskivskyi, and a part of Peremyshlskyi Raion (including Peremyshl city) were transferred to Poland. In 1948, Medykivskyi Raion was transferred to Poland. In 1951, Nyzhnie-Ustrytskyi Raion was also transferred (see 1951 Polish-Soviet territorial exchange). In 1957 and 1959, four raions of the oblast were abolished.

In May 1959, Drohobych Oblast was abolished and merged into Lviv Oblast. This was the last major territorial change in the administrative subdivision of Ukraine at oblast level. At the time of abolition the oblast consisted of 20 raions, and 4 cities of oblast subordinance (Boryslav, Drohobych, Sambir, Stryi).