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autonomy
autonomous okrug
ao
autonomous soviet socialist republic
dzierzynszczyzna
south ossetian autonomous oblast
chuvash autonomous oblast
autonomous republic
rsfsr
chechen autonomous oblast
nagorno karabakh autonomous oblast
chechen ingush autonomous oblast
marchlewszczyzna
cherkess autonomous oblast
oyrot autonomous oblast
ingush autonomous oblast
adyghe autonomous oblast
krai
kurdistan autonomous oblast
sfsr
soviet socialist republic
Noun
Definition: One of the administrative divisions of the former Soviet Union created for certain “smaller” nations and characterized by following features: they were given an autonomy within a union republic or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an autonomous republic; had a different titulary nation from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO.