Belastok Region
| Belastok Region | |||||||||||
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| Region of the Byelorussian SSR | |||||||||||
| 1939–1944 | |||||||||||
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Location of Belastok Region within the Byelorussian SSR (1944) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Belastok (Białystok) | ||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 53°08′N 23°09′E / 53.133°N 23.150°E | ||||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||||
• Established | 4 December 1939 | ||||||||||
• Bezirk Bialystok established | 17 July 1941 | ||||||||||
• Red Army liberation | July 1944 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 20 September 1944 | ||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 24 raions | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Poland Belarus | ||||||||||
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Belastok Region, also known as Belastok Voblasts or Belostok Oblast, was a short-lived region (oblast) of the Byelorussian SSR during World War II, lasting from September 1939 until Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and again for a short period in 1944. The administrative center of the region was the city of Białystok (Belastok), which was annexed from Poland in 1939.