Drohobych Oblast
The Oblast Drohobych (also Oblast Drohobych , Ukrainian Дрогобицька область / Drohobyzka oblast , Russian Дрогобычская область / Drogobytschkaja oblast ) was an administrative unit in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union . The capital was Drohobych . In 1956 the Oblast had 853,000 inhabitants on an area of 10400 km².
The oblast was created after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland by ukase from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on December 9, 1939 and existed until its dissolution on May 21, 1959, when the area of the Lvov Oblast (now Lviv Oblast) was attached.
In March 1945 the westernmost areas of the oblast came back to Poland :
- Birtscha district
- Lisko district
- western parts of Peremyschl Rajons including the city of Przemyśl
In 1948 the Medyka Rajon was returned to Poland, and in 1951 there was a major exchange of territory in which the Ustriki-Dolnye Rajon was returned (see Polish-Soviet Territorial Exchange ).
Administrative structure
The oblast initially consisted of the following former Polish powiats ( called Ujesd in Russian ):
- Drogobytsch / Drohobycz (Дрогобычский уезд)
- Dobromil (Добромильский уезд) with changed borders
- Schidjetschuw / Żydaczów (Жидэчувский уезд)
- Lisko / Lesko (Лисковский уезд) with changed borders
- Mostyska / Mościska (Мостисский уезд)
- Peremyschl / Przemyśl (Перемышльский уезд)
- Rudki (Рудковский уезд)
- Sambor (Самборский уезд)
- Stryj (Стрыйский уезд)
- Turka (Туркский уезд)
After deliberations on January 10, 1940, the Ujesde was dissolved on January 17, 1940 and replaced by the following Rajons (the Russian names are given as they reflect the official names of the time):
- Birtscha district with Birtscha district center (Бирча)
- Borinja district with Borinja district center (Бориня)
- Borislav Raion with Borislav Raion Center (Борислав)
- Rayon Chodorow with Rajonszentrum Chodorow (Ходоров)
- Rayon Chyrow with Rajonszentrum Chyrow (Хыров)
- Drogobych district with Drogobytsch district center (Дрогобыч)
- Dobromil district with Dobromil district center (Добромиль)
- Dubljany district with Dubljany district center (Дубляны)
- Komarno district with Komarno district center (Комарно)
- Krukenitschi district with Krukenitschi district center (Крукеничи)
- Lisko district with Lisko district center (Лиско)
- Medenitsa Raion with Medenitsa Raion Center (Меденица)
- Medyka district with Medyka district center (Медыка)
- Mostyska district with Mostiska district center (Мостиска)
- Nikolayev Raion with Nikolayev Raion Center (Николаев)
- Rayon Peremyshl with Rajonszentrum Peremyshl (Перемышль)
- Podbush district with Podbush district center (Подбуж)
- Rudki district with Rudki district center (Рудки)
- Sambor District with Sambor District Center (Самбор)
- Shurawno district with Shurawno district center (Журавно)
- Schidjetschuw Raion with the Schidjetschuw Raion Center (Жидєчув)
- Skole district with Skole district center (Сколе)
- Slavske district with Slavskoye district center (Славское)
- Streliski Novyje district with Streliski Novyje district center (Стрелиски Новые)
- Strelki district with Strelki district center (Стрелки)
- Stary Sambor district with Stary Sambor district center (Старый Самбор)
- Stry district with Stry district center (Стрый)
- Sudovaya Vishnya district with Sudowaja Vishnya district center (Судовая Вишня)
- Turka district with Turka district center (Турка)
- Ustriki-Dolnye district with Ustriki-Dolnye district center (Устрики-Дольные)
Then there were the independent cities of Borislav, Drogobytsch, Peremyschl, Sambor and Stryj.
When the district was dissolved, there were still 19 districts and 5 independent cities:
- Borinja district
- Khodorov district
- Dobromil district
- Drogobych district
- Shidachev Raion
- Komarno district
- Medenitsa Raion
- Mostyska district
- Nischankowitschi Rajon (Center Nischankowitschi , created in 1945 after the dissolution of the Peremyschl Rajon)
- Nikolayev Raion
- Rudki district
- Sambor district
- Skole district
- Slavske district
- Stary Sambor district
- Strelki district
- Stryi district
- Sudovaya Vishnya district
- Turka district
- Borislav
- Drogobych
- Sambor
- Stryj
- Truskavets
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Указ Президиума ВС СССР от December 4, 1939 об образовании Волынской, Дрогобычской, Львобычской, Львобычской, Львобычской, Львобычской, Львовской, Львовской… Львовской
- ↑ http://www.history.org.ua/index.php?current_day=10¤t_manth=1&flag=1
- ↑ ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 17.01.1940 "Про утворення районів в складі Волинської, Дрогобичської, Львівської, Ровненської, Станіславської і Тарнопольської областей УРСР"