Far Eastern Krai

Far Eastern Krai
January 4, 1926–October 21, 1938
The Far Eastern Krai in 1938
Capital	Khabarovsk
Area
•	2,602,600 km2 (1,004,900 sq mi)
Population
• 1926	1,881,400
• 1929	2,099,700
History
• Established	4 January 1926
• Disestablished	21 October 1938
Preceded by Succeeded by Kamchatka Oblast (Russian Empire) Kamchatka Governorate Kamchatka Oblast
Today part of	Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, northern Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Far Eastern Krai (Russian: Дальневосточный край, romanized: Dal'nevostochnyy kray) was a krai of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic of the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1938. Its capital was Khabarovsk. It was the largest administrative-territorial unit of the Soviet Union after the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, occupying 12% of its territory. On October 21, 1938, the Far Eastern Krai was divided into Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais.

The term may also informally refer to Russian Far East.

Far Eastern Avenue in St. Petersburg is named after the Far Eastern Krai. This is also partly due to the fact that the street is located in the eastern part of the city.^[1]