Selsoviets Quiz

A selsoviet is the shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a council. It was the lowest level of administrative division in rural areas in the Soviet Union.

Selsoviets were preserved as a third tier of administrative-territorial division throughout Ukraine, Belarus, and many of the federal subjects of Russia.

A selsoviet is in subordination to its respective raion administration, which is a higher administrative division.

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<p>The name 'selsoviet' refers to the local rural self-administration and the rural soviet (council), which was a part of the Soviet system of administration.</p> Signup and view all the answers