Sentence examples for the oblast from inspiring English sources

The oblast is centred on Kursk city.

Tyumen city is the administrative centre of the oblast.

The iron ore in the oblast has been exploited.

Industry is concentrated in Ryazan city, the oblast headquarters.

The oblast has a dry, continental climate, with frequent droughts.

The oblast lies in the basin of the middle Don River, which bisects it north south.

The oblast consists of alternating broad river basins and morainic hills.

Plowing has caused intensive soil erosion in the oblast, and countermeasures are relatively limited.

The oblast was dissolved in 1926, becoming Karachay autonomous oblast and Cherkess autonomous oblast.

The oblast is named after the Soviet leader Vladimir I. Lenin.

The towns, except Kurgan, the oblast headquarters, are small and concerned chiefly with processing agricultural produce.