Adygei Autonomous oblast. (Map: Adygei Autonomous oblast.) Autonomous region within the borders of the Krasnodar krai with Maikop as its capital city. The oblast includes a part of the Kuban Lowland on the left bank of the Kuban River and Laba River and a part of the northern foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. It covers an area of 7,600 sq km and had a population of 405,000 in 1980. The oblast is settled by Adygeians (21 percent), Russians (71 percent), and Ukrainians (3 percent). In 1926, 23.4 percent of the oblast's population of 112,767 was Ukrainian.