oblasti

noun, plural o·blasts, Russian o·bla·sti [aw-bluh-styee] /ˈɔ blə styi/.

1. (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
2. region; province.

noun

1. an administrative division of the constituent republics of Russia
2. an administrative and territorial division in some republics of the former Soviet Union