Okruh

At the time of the 1926 census Ukrainian lands in the U.S.S.R. were administratively divided into okruhs (divisions or departments) and rayons (districts).

Czechoslovakia had zemli (lands) and okruhy (districts). Still almost everywhere historical memory of the Ukrainian people has preserved age-long used names.

In 1923, okruhs (regions) and raions (districts) replaced volosti and counties, and in 1925 the division into gubernias was abolished. The Ukrainian okruhs of Tahanrih and Shakhty were ceded to Russia in 1924.

During the second half of the 1920s the borders of the Soviet Ukraine were altered on several occasions. The biggest change came in 1925, when the far eastern okruhs of Shakhty and Taganrog (a total of 10,900 square miles or 28,000 square kilometers) were transferred to Soviet Russia.

The remainder of this chapter investigates the causal factors behind the proportion of each oblast’s vote for successful candidates classified as “in favor” on each of the three issues. The winners’ votes were summed across all okruhs within each oblast.

The data is drawn from the okruhy of Volyn’, Lubny, Luhans’k, Mariulop’, Melitopol’, Mykolaiiv’, Nizhyn, Pervomais’k, Pryluky, Poltava, Proskuriv, Odessa.

Access to social and administrative services can be facilitated through local authorities at the starostynskyi okruh level, which helps residents obtain the necessary services without traveling to distant locations. For instance, local authorities in Tomakivska, Myrivska, Sofiivska, and Hrechano-Podivska hromadas in Dnipropetrovska Oblast, as well as Novomykolaivska hromada in Zaporizka Oblast, are actively working to ensure that residents can access social benefits, allowances, and subsidies through their respective starosta okruhs, using specialized software from the Unified Information System of the Social Sphere to assist residents in processing the required documentation.

On March 20, Pavlo Shamshyn, spokesman for the Kharkiv Autonomous Okruh, noted that spring weather is impacting the course of fighting in Kharkiv Oblast.

To concentrate on the bigger picture, I must neglect certain episodes of territorial reform. For example, the Ukrainian Soviet government dissolved the okruhy (okruga) in 1930 and introduced oblasti only in early 1932.