Excerpt from Directory of Soviet Officials: Republic Organizations The Russian words kray, oblast, okrug, and rayon - standard terms for territorial and administrative units in the USSR - are not translated. Place names have been translated where possible (primorskiy kray, for example, is rendered as Maritime Kray), and Russian adjectival endings have been eliminated in translation (leningradskaya oblast is rendered as Leningrad Oblast). Soft signs have been omitted from the English renderings of place names. Organizations. An effort has been made to verify and standardize the names of organizational components and the position titles of individuals, but some unverified entries remain for names whose sole source is a non-soviet publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.