Mari Autonomous Oblast

Map of the Mari Autonomous Oblast in 1928

The Mari Autonomous Oblast was created on November 4, 1920, as on region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1936 it was re-established as the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which dissolved in 1990, then developing into the modern Mari El Republic within Russian Federation.

The Oblast is largely populated by the Mari people. Events in its early history include the Russian famine of 1921 and the 1921 Mari wildfires.

Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Adyghe Chechen–Ingush Chechen Ingush Chuvash Gorno-Altai Gorno-Badakhshan Jewish Kabardino-Balkar Kalmyk Kara-Kirghiz Karachay-Cherkess Cherkess Karachay Kara-Kalpak Komi-Zyryan Khakas Mari Moldavian Nagorno-Karabakh North Ossetian South Ossetian Tuvan Udmurt

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Mari Autonomous Oblast

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