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{{short description|Former territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic}}

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{{Infobox Former Subdivision
| native_name            = {{langx|be|Вілейская вобласць}}<br/>{{langx|ru|Вилейская область}}
| conventional_long_name = Vileyka Region
| common_name            = Vileyka
| subdivision            = [[Oblast|Region]]
| nation                 = the [[Byelorussian SSR]]
| year_start             = 1939
| date_start             = 4 December
| year_end               = 1944
| date_end               = 20 September
| p1                     = Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)
| flag_p1                = Flag of Poland.svg
| s1                     = Molodechno Region
| flag_s1                = Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1937–1951).svg
| image_flag             = 
| image_map              = Вілейская вобласць БССР (студзень 1940).svg
| image_map_caption      = Map of the [[Byelorussian SSR]] in 1940,<br/>of which Vileyka Region was a part.
| capital                = Vileyka
| coordinates            = {{Coord|54|29|N|26|55|E|display=inline,title}}
| political_subdiv       = 22 [[raion|district]]s
| stat_year1             = 1941
| stat_area1             = 20700
| stat_pop1              = 938000
| footnotes              = 
}}
'''Vileyka Region''' ({{langx|be|Вілейская вобласць|translit=Viliejskaja voblasc}}; {{langx|ru|Вилейская область|translit=Vileyskaya oblast}}) was a territorial entity in the [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic]] created on 4 December 1939 out of the eastern powiats of the [[Wilno Voivodeship (1923–1939)|Wilno Voivodeship]] after the [[Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia]] of (then part of the [[Kresy Zachodnie]] region in [[Poland]]) into the Byelorussian SSR on 14 November 1939. The administrative centre of the region was the city of [[Vileyka]]. 

Initially the region consisted of [[Vileyka District|Vileyka]], [[Ashmyany District|Ashmyany]], [[Braslaw District|Braslaw]], [[Dzisna District|Dzisna]], [[Pastavy District|Pastavy]], and [[Švenčionys|Sventiany]] districts. In January 1940, it consisted of 22 districts: [[Astravyets District|Astravyets]], Ashmyany, Braslaw, [[Vidzy District|Vidzy]], [[Adutiškis|Gadutsishki]], [[Hlybokaye District|Hlybokaye]], Dzisna, [[Dokshytsy District|Dokshytsy]], [[Dunilavichy District|Dunilavichy]], [[Ilya District|Ilya]], [[Kryvichy District|Kryvichy]], [[Kuraniets District|Kuraniets]], [[Maladzyechna District|Maladzyechna]], [[Miory District|Miory]], [[Miadzieł]], Pastavy, [[Plisa District|Plisa]], [[Radashkovichy District|Radashkovichy]], [[Smarhon District|Smarhon]], [[Švenčionys|Sventiany]], [[Svir District|Svir]] and [[Sharkawshchyna District|Sharkawshchyna]]. In November 1940, the Gadutsishki and Sventiany districts, as well as parts of the Astravyets, Ashmyany, Pastavy and Svir districts were transferred to the [[Lithuanian SSR]]. Also, during the German occupation between 1941 and 1944, Ashmyany District was part of Wilna Land General Bezirk at Litauen and {{What|reason=Vilyeyka and Glubokoye are two separate cities.|date=September 2023|text=the city of Vileyka Glubokoye}} was part of General Bezirk Weissruthenien in [[Reichskommissariat Ostland]]. 

On 20 September 1944, the oblast was renamed to [[Molodechno Region]], and the administrative centre was relocated to [[Maladzyechna]]. On the same day, Vidzy, Hlybokaye, Dzisna, Dokshitsi, Dunilovichi, Miory, Plisa, and Sharkovshchina Districts, as well as Kuropolye village in Postavy District were transferred to [[Polatsk Voblast]], and the [[Iwye District|Iwye]], [[Valozhyn District|Valozhyn]], and [[Yuratsishky District|Yuratsishky]] districts of [[Baranavichy Region]] were transferred to Molodechno. Vileyka, the former regional centre, was part of Kuraniets District and became a district centre after the district was renamed Vileyka on 5 July 1946.

==External links==
*[http://archives.gov.by/Itd/Adm_del.htm Administrative division of Belarus: a historical information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026095741/http://archives.gov.by/Itd/Adm_del.htm |date=2006-10-26 }}
*{{wikisource-inline|ru:Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 04.12.1939 об образовании Барановичской, Белостокской, Брестской … и Пинской областей в составе Белорусской ССР|04.12.1939 Ukaz}}

*{{wikisource-inline|ru:Указ Президиума ВС БССР от 15.01.1940 об образовании районов в Барановичской, Белостокской, Брестской … и Пинской областях Белорусской ССР|15.01.1940 Ukaz}}
*{{wikisource-inline|ru:Указ Президиума ВС БССР от 25.11.1940 об изменении границ отдельных районов ... в связи с уточнением границы между Литовской и Белорусской ССР|25.11.1940 Ukaz}}
*{{wikisource-inline|ru:Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 06.11.1940 об установлении границы между БССР и ЛитССР|06.11.1940 Ukaz}}

*{{wikisource-inline|ru:Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 20.09.1944 о перенесении областного центра Вилейской области Белорусской ССР и переименовании Вилейской области|20.09.1944 Ukaz}}


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