958:. In particular, the following 29 districts, Brasovsky, Bryansky, Dubrovsky, Dyatkovsky, Gordeyevsky, Karachevsky, Khvastovichsky, Kletnyansky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Komarichsky, Krasnogorsky, Lyudinovsky, Mglinsky, Navlinsky, Novozybkovsky, Pochepsky, Pogarsky, Rognedinsky, Sevsky, Shablykinsky, Starodubsky, Suzemsky, Surazhsky, Trubchevsky, Ulyanovsky, Unechsky, Zhizdrinsky, and Zhukovsky Districts, were transferred to Oryol Oblast. The remaining 49 districts were transferred to Smolensk Oblast. These were Andreyevsky, Baryatinsky, Baturinsky, Belsky, Demidovsky, Dorogobuzhsky, Dukhovshchinsky, Duminichsky, Dzerzhinsky, Gzhatsky, Glinkovsky, Ilyinsky, Izdeshkovsky, Iznoskovsky, Kardymovsky, Karmanovsky, Kasplyansky, Khislavichsky, Kholm-Zhirkovsky, Kirovsky, Kozelsky, Krasnyansky, Medynsky, Meshchovsky, Monastyrshchinsky, Mosalsky, Novoduginsky, Ponizovsky, Pochinkovsky, Prechistensky, Roslavlsky, Rudnyansky, Safonovsky, Shumyachsky, Slobodskoy, Smolensky, Spas-Demensky, Sukhinichsky, Stodolishchensky, Sychyovsky, Tyomkinsky, Tumanovsky, Usvyatsky, Velizhsky, Vskhodsky, Vyazemsky, Yartsevsky, Yekimovichsky, Yelninsky, Yershichsky, Yukhnovsky, and Znamensky Districts.
928:
Yeltsovsky, Yershichsky, and
Zhiryatinsky Districts. On 30 January 1934 Pogorelsky, Prechistensky, and Suzemsky Districts were abolished. On 28 December of the same year Plokhinsky District was renamed Rumyantsevsky. On 18 January 1935 a number of districts were established or re-established. These were Chertolinsky, Iznoskovsky, Kardymovsky, Kunyinsky, Penovsky, Pogorelsky, Ponizovsky, Prechistensky, Rognedinsky, Suzemsky, Tumanovsky, Voskresensky, Vskhodsky, and Yershichsky Districts.
935:. It consisted of Chertolinsky, Kamensky, Kholmsky, Kunyinsky, Leninsky, Loknyansky, Lukovnikovsky, Nelidovsky, Nevelsky, Novosokolnichesky, Oktyabrsky, Oleninsky, Ostashkovsky, Penovsky, Pogorelsky, Pustoshkinsky, Rzhevsky, Sebezhsky, Selizharovsky, Staritsky, Toropetsky, Velikoluksky, and Zubtsovsky Districts.
927:
On 10 February 1931 Vskhodsky
District was abolished. On 1 February 1932 eighteen more districts were abolished: Baturinsky, Churovichsky, Idritsky, Iznoskovsky, Kasplyansky, Khotinetsky, Kunyinsky, Mokrovsky, Molodotudsky, Nasvinsky, Pavlinovsky, Ponurovsky, Rognedinsky, Voskresensky, Vygonichsky,
919:
On 20 September 1930 twelve districts were abolished: Bologovsky, Ponizovsky, Porechyevsky, Rykovsky, Slobodskoy, Sovetsky, Stepurinsky, Tsevelsky, Troitsky, Usmynsky, Ust-Dolyssky, Vysokovsky
Districts. On 20 November of the same year Grinyovsky, Kardymovsky, and Katynsky Districts were abolished
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On 27 December 1935 Voskresensky
District was renamed Andreyevsky District, on January 1936 Pesochensky District was renamed Kirovsky District, and on 5 March 1937 Bukharinsky District was renamed Dzerzhinsky District, following the arrest of
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916:. On 1 August 1930 the okrugs were abolished, and the districts were subordinated directly to the oblast. Smolensk and Bryansk were made cities of the oblast significance.
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On 27 September 1937 the All-Russian
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Western Oblast was transferred into newly established
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Oblast
Committee. The following persons were the first secretaries,
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Demyan
Sergeyevich Korotchenko (1937), acting first secretary.
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Oblasts of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
969:
Ivan Petrovich Rumyantsev (1929–1937), executed during the
1058:Административно-территориальное деление Смоленской области
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On 10 May 1930 Uvarovsky District was transferred to
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210:from 1929 to 1937. Its seat was in the city of
253:. The territory of the oblast was formed from
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16:1929–1937 unit of Russia
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147:• Disestablished
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239:1937 All-Union Census
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352:Velikiye Luki Okrug
275:Velikiye Luki Okrug
137:• Established
39: /
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882:Novoduginsky
866:Izdeshkovsky
851:Velikoluksky
839:Ust-Dolyssky
803:Porechyevsky
795:Ostashkovsky
736:Sukhinichsky
578:Molodotudsky
531:Pochinkovsky
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460:Churovichsky
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232:Tver Oblasts
208:Russian SFSR
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107:• 1937
73:Russian SFSR
24:
971:Great Purge
870:Iznoskovsky
858:Bukharinsky
724:Pavlinovsky
716:Meshchovsky
708:Duminichsky
704:Baryatinsky
657:Kasplyansky
653:Kardymovsky
606:Stepurinsky
570:Karmanovsky
555:Yershichsky
543:Shumyachsky
535:Rognedinsky
523:Kletnyansky
500:Starodubsky
472:Klintsovsky
464:Gordeyevsky
445:Zhizdrinsky
441:Vygonichsky
437:Trubchevsky
421:Pesochensky
413:Lyudinovsky
409:Komarichsky
401:Khotynetsky
397:Karachevsky
322:Rzhev Okrug
261:, parts of
46: /
1097:Categories
981:References
886:Tyomkinsky
823:Toropetsky
791:Oktyabrsky
775:Loknyansky
751:Bologovsky
744:Yukhnovsky
728:Plokhinsky
693:Yartsevsky
689:Slobodskoy
685:Safonovsky
681:Rudnyansky
673:Ponizovsky
665:Krasninsky
649:Grinyovsky
645:Glinkovsky
633:Demidovsky
629:Baturinsky
622:Zubtsovsky
618:Yeltsovsky
614:Vysokovsky
610:Sychyovsky
590:Pogorelsky
582:Nelidovsky
539:Roslavlsky
492:Ponurovsky
393:Dyatkovsky
346:Sukhinichi
94:Population
19:See also:
1081:6 October
902:Znamensky
898:Vyazemsky
890:Uvarovsky
847:Velizhsky
843:Usvyatsky
831:Tsevelsky
815:Sebezhsky
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767:Kunyinsky
740:Vskhodsky
697:Yelninsky
602:Staritsky
586:Oleninsky
527:Mokrovsky
515:Dubrovsky
504:Surazhsky
496:Pochepsky
468:Klimovsky
453:Zhukovsky
417:Navlinsky
385:Brasovsky
206:) of the
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171:districts
111:4,693,495
79:1929–1937
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878:Medynsky
862:Gzhatsky
835:Usmynsky
827:Troitsky
819:Sovetsky
811:Rykovsky
799:Penovsky
783:Nevelsky
771:Leninsky
763:Kholmsky
759:Ilyinsky
755:Idritsky
720:Mosalsky
712:Kozelsky
661:Katynsky
594:Rzhevsky
566:Kamensky
508:Unechsky
488:Pogarsky
480:Mglinsky
433:Suzemsky
389:Bryansky
336:Smolensk
255:Smolensk
228:Smolensk
212:Smolensk
88:Smolensk
1004:25 July
316:Roslavl
306:Klintsy
296:Bryansk
245:History
237:By the
216:Bryansk
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284:okrugs
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267:Kaluga
263:Moscow
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