Semipalatinsk Oblast, Kazakhstan

For the administrative division of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR, see Semipalatinsk Oblast, Russia.

KazSSR oblasts 1959

Semipalatinsk Oblast (Kazakh: Семей облысы, Semei oblysy; Russian: Семипала́тинская о́бласть) was an administrative division of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, established on October 14, 1939 from parts of East Kazakhstan and Alma-Ata Oblasts. Upon Kazakhstan's independence in 1991, the oblast continued to exist until 1997, when it was merged back into East Kazakhstan Oblast.

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• Президиум Верховного Совета СССР. Указ от 14 октября 1939 г. «Об образовании Семипалатинской, Акмолинской и Джамбулской областей в составе Казахской ССР». (Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Decree of October 14, 1939 On Establishing Semipalatinsk, Akmola, and Dzhambul Oblasts Within the Kazakh SSR. ).