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Anautonomous oblast (Russian:Автономная область (АО)) is anautonomous form of anoblast (administrative-territorial structure) in theUSSR. Of thepost-Soviet states, autonomous oblasts currently exist only inRussia (theJewish Autonomous Oblast) andTajikistan (theGorno-Badakhshan).
There wereautonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union and later somefederal subjects of Russia were autonomous oblasts: the one remaining is theJewish Autonomous Oblast.Eastern Rumelia was an autonomous province (oblast in Bulgarian, one of its official languages) of the Ottoman Empire.Serb Autonomous Regions are known asoblasts.
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