Transbaikal Oblast

Transbaikal Oblast
Забайкальская область (Russian)
Oblast of the Russian Empire
1851/1920–1917/1922
Coat of arms of Transbaikal Oblast
Coat of arms

Transbaikal Oblast within the Russian Empire
CapitalNerchinsk, then Chita
Area 
• 
613,000 km2 (237,000 sq mi)
Population 
• 1897[1]
672,037
History 
• Established
1851/1920
• Disestablished
1917/1922
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Irkutsk Governorate
Transbaikal Governorate
Today part ofBuryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai

The Transbaikal Oblast (Russian: Забайкальская область) was a province (oblast) of the Russian Empire, in what is now Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai. The oblast was created out of the territory of the Irkutsk Governorate in 1851, and was dissolved in 1917, it was briefly re-established from 1920 to 1922 before it was succeeded by the Transbaikal Governorate.

  1. ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г." [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. Demoscope Weekly (in Russian).

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