Vileyka Voblast (
Belarusian ????????? ????????,
Russian ????????? ???????) was a territorial unit in the
Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created out of the eastern powiats of the
Wilno Voivodeship after the annexation of
West Belarus into the
BSSR in November
1939. The administrative centre of the province was the city of
Vileyka. The Voblast consisted of 22
raions. On
September 20, 1944 the oblast was renamed to
Maladzyechna Voblast and the administrative centre was relocated to
Maladzyechna.
