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Vileyka Voblast (Belarusian: Вілейская вобласць, Russian: Вилейская область) was a territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created out of the eastern powiats of the Wilno Voivodeship after the annexation of West Belarus into the BSSR in November 1939. The administrative centre of the province was the city of Vileyka. The Voblast consisted of 22 raions. On September 20, 1944 the oblast was renamed to Maladzyechna Voblast and the administrative centre was relocated to Maladzyechna.
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