Volost
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Volost is a noun meaning (historical) A traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.
Meaning
(historical) A traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.
Example Sentences
Coordinate term: raion (modern Russia)
In 1923 Soviet Ukraine’s 102 povity were replaced by 53 larger okruhy (sing. okruha), and its 1,989 volosti by 706 raions.
Next to the village stands the volost, or union of several villages, and this also is governed on the republican plan by elders elected from among the peasants themselves. Then comes the district composed of a number of volosti; […]
The office-holders and agencies which ran the new units – the elder, the clerk, the executive board, the assembly, the court – were elected by the peasants whom they served, but it is only with considerable reservation that volosti can be said to have increased the representative character of the imperial polity.
Word Forms
- volosts
- volosti
- vollost
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include oblast, voisko, uchastok, zemstvo, republic, selsoviet.
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