Mari Autonomous Oblast
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The Mari Autonomous Oblast was created on November 4, 1920, as a region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1936 it was re-established as the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which dissolved in 1990, then developing into the modern Mari El Republic within Russian Federation.
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Mari Autonomous Oblast | |||||||||
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Autonomous oblast of the Russian SFSR | |||||||||
1920–1936 | |||||||||
Capital | Krasnokokshaysk | ||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 1920 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1936 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Mari El |
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The Oblast was largely populated by the Mari people. Events in its early history include the Russian famine of 1921–22 and the 1921 Mari wildfires.