Semipalatinsk Oblast, Kazakhstan
From Kazakhstan Encyclopedia
Semipalatinsk Oblast (Template:Lang-kz; Template:Lang-ru) 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.<ref name="Est">Decree of October 14, 1939</ref> Upon Kazakhstan's independence in 1991, the oblast continued to exist until 1997, when it was merged back into East Kazakhstan Oblast.
