oblast russian

• обко́м

  oblast committee / regional committee

• Подмоско́вье

  Moscow suburbs

  Moscow oblast as a whole

• свердло́вск

  (oblast) Sverdlovsk

• Ряза́нь

  Ryazan (a city, the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia, 196 kilometres south of Moscow)

• лено́бласть

  Leningrad oblast

• обл

  oblast, region, province

• Мари́инск

  Mariinsk (a town in Kemerovo Oblast)