69°18′N 52°15′E / 69.300°N 52.250°E / 69.300; 52.250 Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast (Komi: Коми (Зыряна) асвеськӧдлан обласьт, Komi (Zyryana) asves’ködlan oblas’t) was created on 22 August 1921. It is one of several autonomous oblasts that existed in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union, and it was the predecessor of the Komi ASSR created in 1936.^[1] The seat of the Oblast was located in Ust-Sysolsk (renamed "Syktyvkar" in 1930).