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[[Drohobych Oblast]] was continuously reduced in size, ceding three raions to the [[Polish Committee of National Liberation]] in autumn 1944 (including the city of [[Przemyśl|Peremyshl]]). Another raion (village of [[Medyka]]) followed in May 1948, and losing a further [[1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange|480 km² of territory in 1951]] to the now [[People's Republic of Poland]]. The rural oblast also proved to be economically inefficient and was thus disbanded; its territory merged into [[Lviv Oblast]] on 21 May 1959. The latter would be the last major change of internal borders of Ukraine's administrative divisions until present day, the oblast count would stay stable at twenty five up to the republic's [[Independence of Ukraine|independence]] in 1991.
Minor changes would continue nonetheless. The [[22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd Congress of the CPSU]] initiated a cosmetic phase to the [[De-Stalinization]] programme by breaking [[Joseph Stalin]]'s [[cult of personality]]. On 9 November 1961, the city of
This arrangement would enter a stable phase right into the [[perestroika]]. On 4 May 1990 Voroshylovhrad would be once again reverted to Luhansk, along with the oblast. On 11 June 1991, the city of Rovno was renamed to [[Rivne]], the oblast too. However, the most significant change took place on 12 February 1991, when the [[Crimean Oblast]] would re-establish as the [[Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]], which it held as part of the [[Russian SFSR]] until 18 May 1944, and would declare sovereignty on 4 September.
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