Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small administrative division in Russia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.
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Examples
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It happened sometimes that one of these elders, who was considered unusually wise or powerful, became chief of the volost, a dignity which might become hereditary.
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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They were judged by elected courts, that is juries, either in the mir court or in that of the volost (district).
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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With great difficulty there were established organs of a local, autonomous administration, volost and district zemstvos, which were to furnish a basis of organization to the government zemstvos.
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921
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It’s nearly three miles to the volost, and the storm, the snowdrifts, are something terrible — maybe one won’t get there before midnight.
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At home one has to heat the stove for the clerk in the volost office, to fetch water for him, to clean his boots.”
qms commented on the word volost
A city gives refuge at cost:
Imperial favor is lost.
Czar Donald the Great
Will not hesitate
To punish a rebel volost.
February 2, 2017