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Belastok Voblast or Belostok Oblast (Belarusian: Беластоцкая вобласць, Biełastockaja vobłasć, Russian: Белостокская Область, Polish: Obwód białostocki) was a territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) from September 1939 to August 1945.
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The administrative center of the voblast was the city of Belastok (Polish: Białystok, Belarusian: Беласток).
The Voblast consisted of 24 raions: Augustow , Bialystok , Belsky , Bryansk , Volkovysk , Grodno , Grajewo , Dombrowski , Zabludavski , Zambravski , Kolnavski , Krynkovsky , Lapski , Lomzhinsky , Monkavski (in the same year was renamed to Knyshynski), Porechsky ( in the same year transferred to the Lithuanian SSR ), Sakolkavski , Sapotskinsky , Skidelsky , Svislochsky , Snyadovski , Tsehanovetsky , Chyzhavski and Yadvabnavski .
Belastok Voblast was created after the Soviet invasion of Poland and annexation of West Belarus into BSSR in November 1939.[1][2]
In the aftermath of the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 this western portion of then-Belarus, which until 1939 belonged to the Polish state was placed under German Civil Administration (Zivilverwaltungsgebiet). As Bezirk Bialystok, the area was under German rule from 1941 to 1944/45, without ever formally being incorporated into the German Reich.
After the Soviet liberation of the whole territory of Belarus in September 1944, the territory was administered by the BSSR, but according to the Border Agreement between Poland and the USSR of 16 August 1945, 17 raions, together with 3 raions of the Brest Voblast were passed on to the Białystok Voivodeship of Poland. The remaining raions were annexed into the Hrodna Voblast of the BSSR.
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