Azerbaijan SSR administrative divisions

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The Azerbaijan SSR administrative divisions were the Soviet-era territorial and administrative units that organized the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic into regions, districts, and cities under the USSR’s centralized governance system.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet administrative structure
administrative division system
abolishedWith dissolution of the Azerbaijan SSR
administrativeCenterType oblast center
rayon center
republican capital
administrativeUnit city
rayon
settlement
village soviet
appliedInPeriod Soviet era
capitalCity Baku
classificationLevel first-level administrative divisions
second-level administrative divisions
third-level administrative divisions
country Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
existedBefore administrative divisions of independent Azerbaijan
function framework for economic planning
framework for local soviets
framework for statistical reporting
territorial organization of state power
governanceType centralized governance
governedByBody Moscow City Soviet of People’s Deputies
surface form: local soviet of people’s deputies
higherLevelAuthority Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR
Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR
central authorities of the USSR
includedAutonomousUnit Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
surface form: Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
includedCityOfRepublicanSubordination Baku
influenced post-Soviet administrative divisions of Azerbaijan
legalBasis Constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR
laws of the Soviet Union
modeledOn administrative divisions of the Russian SFSR
partOf Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
subdivisionType autonomous oblast
autonomous republic
cities of republican subordination
oblasts
okrugs
rayons
successorSystem administrative divisions of the Republic of Azerbaijan
timeOfMajorReforms 1920s
1930s
1950s
1960s
1970s
usedLanguageInAdministration Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani

Russian

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Elisavetpol Governorate successor Azerbaijan SSR administrative divisions