Talk:Subdivisions of the Soviet Union

"A Republican subordination"
Er, what does this mean? -- ℜob C. alias &Agrave;LAROB  00:49, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It is consisted with administrative division of the Russian Federation. Each republic of the Soviet Union had its city of republican significance (or subordination), usually it was a capital. Administrative centers of oblasts had status of regional significance. Closed cities were some selected cities and it was not really a status, at least officially. Closed cities were classified localities. There also are cities of raion significance. Soviet cities in general were special types settlements and had a certain degree of self-government. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 03:41, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

When?
It seems that the structure shown in this article is vaguely about the 60s, 70s and 80s. Either previous decades should be added or timespan included in the title. The types and structures of administrative territorial division during the whole history of the USSR was far more varied.

In connection with this, the number of different types of administrative units shown in the table is arbitrary. The number of oblasts varied in all republics (except Moldavia and Armenia, where they never existed). In Kirghizia there were never 7 oblasts, their number was between 1 and 6; in Tajikistan the number was between 1 and 6; in the 50s there were oblasts in 5 smaller SSRs; in the 60s there were also krais in Kazakhstan etc.

--peyerk (talk) 15:16, 28 April 2017 (UTC)