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volost definition

vo·lost (vō′läst′)

noun

  1. a small administrative district of peasants in czarist Russia
  2. a rural soviet in the Soviet Union

Etymology: Russ volost'

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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