单词 | volost |
释义 | volostn. Now historical. The smallest rural administrative subdivision in Imperial Russia and the U.S.S.R. (abolished in 1930). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Russia rayon1830 oblast1844 zemstvo1865 volost1889 kray1938 1889 in G. N. Curzon Russia in Central Asia v. 114 There are forty volosts, or sub-districts, in the Merv circuit. 1920 B. 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. 1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. iv. 66 The Baltic republics..are still divided into uyezds and volosts as in Imperial Russia. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 102/2 The terms okrug (national enclave), uyezd (district) and volost (rural area) are obsolescent. 1974 Encycl. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1889 |
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