Izmail Oblast

45°21′N 28°52′E / 45.350°N 28.867°E / 45.350; 28.867  12,400 km² (4,800 sq mi)History 7 August 19401 December 194015 February 1954

Preceded by	Succeeded by
Kingdom of Romania	Odesa Oblast

a. The oblast's capital was Akkerman before it was moved to Izmail on 1 December 1940.

Izmail Oblast (Ukrainian: Ізмаїльська область, romanized: Izmailska oblast; Romanian: Regiunea Ismail) (7 August 1940 — 15 February 1954) was an oblast in the Ukrainian SSR, roughly corresponding to the historical region of Budjak. It had a territory of 12,400 km² (4,800 sq mi).

The oblast was organized on 7 August 1940 on the territory, known as Budjak or southern Bessarabia, occupied by the Soviet Union from Romania. It was originally known as Akkerman Oblast (Ukrainian: Акерманська область, romanized: Akermans’ka oblast’) until 1 December 1940, i.e. before the oblast center was moved from Akkerman to Izmail. The oblast was administratively subdivided into 13 raions. On 15 February 1954, the oblast was liquidated, and its territory was included in Odesa Oblast. The current area is now divided into two municipalities (Izmail and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi) and nine raions; these cover 13,188 km² (5,092 sq mi) and in 2015 had a combined population of 592,842.

See also

• Izmail Raion

External links

• Akkerman Oblast (Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union)
• Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of USSR of February 15, 1954 about liquidation of the Izmail Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. Russian version of the Wikisource.

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