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History Raions in the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union, raions were administrative divisions created in the 1920s to reduce the number of territorial divisions inherited from the Russian Empire and to simplify their bureaucracies. The process of conversion to the system of raions was called raionirovanie ("regionalization").
A raion (Ukrainian: район, romanized: raion; pl. райони, raiony), often translated as district, is the second-level administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged.
Mar 15, 2022 · The History of Ukraine and Russia: From Medieval Rus to the First Tsars. Here's the story of Ukraine and Russia's long and turbulent relationship over the past 1,000 years, from Medieval Rus to the First Tsars, the Imperial Era to the USSR and in the Post-Soviet Era.
Feb 23, 2023 · HISTORY & CULTURE. EXPLAINER. Russia and Ukraine: the tangled history that connects—and divides—them. Centuries of bloodshed, foreign domination, and internal divisions have left Ukraine in a...
Mar 19, 2019 · From early Mongol invasions to czarist regimes to ages of enlightenment and industrialization to revolutions and wars, Russia is known not just for its political rises of world power and...
Territorial evolution of Russia from 1547 to 1725. The borders of Russia changed through military conquests and by ideological and political unions from the 16th century. Tsarist Russia. The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480.
There is information on GIS of Belorussian historical boundaries project (Karchevskii K.A., 2000). Institute of History of Russia published a map of Russian administrative division of XVII century [3] (Administrative division..., 1996). The purpose of our project is to build historical GIS of the Russian administrative division and its changes ...
