The Transcaspian Oblast, or simply Transcaspia, was an oblast of the Russian Empire and early Soviet Russia to the east of the Caspian Sea during the...

oblasts were located on the periphery of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived. Amur Oblast...

the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived. In the Soviet Union, oblasts were one of the types of...

of the Trans-Caspian Railway in 1918. It was based at Ashgabat, Transcaspian Oblast. Autonomous sentiments were developing amongst the local Turkmen...

Shatalova (born October 13, 1916, Ashgabat, Transcaspian Oblast, died on December 14, 2011, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian neurosurgeon, a military surgeon...

Bukhara) Semirechye Oblast (Verny) (1882–1899 part of the Governor-Generalship of the Steppes) Syr-Darya Oblast (Tashkent) Transcaspian Oblast (Askhabat) (until...

– administrative center of Russia's Transcaspian Region 1918–1925 – administrative center of the Turkmen Oblast in the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist...

of the Russians in 1873. It was attached to Russia as an uyezd of Transcaspian Oblast in 1881. The fate of the government following the 1917 revolution...

was divided into distinct ethno-national political entities, the Transcaspian Oblast of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkestan...

Atamyrat Nyýazow (1912 – 24 December 1942) was a soldier in the Red Army during World War II from the Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan who was the father...

Gurbansoltan Niýazowa (1913 – 6 October 1948), known as Gurbansoltan Eje, nee Atamyradowa, was the mother of the first post-Soviet president of Turkmenistan...

the town of Shetpe. Emba (river) Karakalpaks Khwarezm oasis region Transcaspian Oblast Gritsina, M. (2019). "The Caracal Caracal caracal Schreber, 1776...

province of Transcaspia (Russian: Закаспийская область, 'Transcaspian Oblast') was renamed Turkmen Oblast (Russian: Туркменская область), and in 1924, the Turkmen...

The Turkmenian kulan (Equus hemionus kulan), also called Transcaspian wild ass, Turkmenistani onager or simply the kulan, is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic...

article on Mary reads in part, Mary (until 1937 Merv), city, center of Mary oblast' of Turkmen SSR. Located on the Murghab River and Karakum Canal. Junction...

Georges Sergeevich Agabekov (original family name Arutyunov; Russian: Георгий Серге́евич Агабеков, transliteration Georgiĭ Sergeevich Agabekov) (1896–1937)...

in 1885 by the Russian general A.V. Komarov, the governor of the Transcaspian oblast, 1883–89; Komarov employed his Tsarist troops as excavators and published...

Civil War, which operated from January 1919 to February 1920, in the Transcaspian Oblast area. The Turkestan Army was established on January 22, 1919, by...

military governor of Russian Dalian (Primorye oblast; 1897–1898);Transcaspian Oblast (Zakaspiyskaya oblast, 1901–1902), general governor of Primorsky Krai...

assist local Transcaspian rebel forces in case of a Bolshevik attack. The Bolsheviks indeed attacked the British-Indian and Transcaspian position at Bairam...

four regions (oblasts); west-to-east these were Ural (plus part of Transcaspian Oblast, Turgai, Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk. All four oblasts had been created...

10 February 1938) was a Turkmen Soviet politician. He was born in Transcaspian Oblast. He was the first prime minister of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist...

May 1881 the occupied area was annexed as the Transcaspian Oblast. The eastern boundary of the oblast was undefined. 1884: The annexation of Merv: The...

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Jumadurdy Garaýew (10 January 1910 – 4 May 1960) was a Soviet politician who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan from...

On November 21, 1939, Krasnovodsk Oblast [ru] was formed with its administrative center in Krasnovodsk. The oblast was repeatedly liquidated and restored...

Alty Karliev (Turkmen: Alty Garlyýew; January 6, 1909 – December 11, 1973) was a Soviet and Turkmen stage and film actor, director and dramatist. He studied...

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Upon the Soviet takeover of Russian Turkestan, the territory of the Transcaspian Oblast, which contained the Mangyshlak Peninsula, was initially assigned...

SSR and Karakalpakstan ASSR (initially part of Kazakh ASSR as Karakalpak Oblast).[citation needed] The larger historical area of Khwarezm is further divided...