Oblastan

administrative division or region in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and in some of its former constituent republics.

Republic - short-lived state that controlled, de jure, the territory of the former Russian Empire after the abdication
of Emperor Nicholas II
Krais - type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire
Autonomous Okrug - type of federal subject of Russia and simultaneously an administrative division type of some
federal subjects
Federal city - a city that has a status of both an inhabited locality and a constituent federal subject.
Autonomous Oblast - an autonomous entity within the state which is on the oblast (province) level of the overall
administrative subdivision