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‖ volost|ˈvolost|
[Russ. volost′.]
The smallest rural administrative subdivision in Imperial Russia and the U.S.S.R. (abolished in 1930).
1889in G. N. Curzon Russia in Central Asia v. 114 There are forty volosts, or sub-districts, in the Merv circuit. 1920B. Russell Pract. & Theory Bolshevism i. v. 75, I asked in the villages how they were represented on the Volost (the next larger area) or the Gubernia. 1948J. Towster Political Power in U.S.S.R. iv. 66 The Baltic republics..are still divided into uyezds and volosts as in Imperial Russia. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 102/2 The terms okrug (national enclave), uyezd (district) and volost (rural area) are obsolescent. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 59/1 Kiselev..provided for a measure of self-government under which the mayor of the volost (a district grouping several villages or peasant communes) was elected by male householders. |