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).

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

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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.

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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.

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