Okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

An okruha (Ukrainian: округа) is a historical administrative division of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic that existed between 1923 and 1930. The system was intended as a transitional system between the Russian Imperial division of governorates and the modern equivalent of oblasts.

This article is about administrative division of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s. For the Soviet border okrugs in the 1930s, see Okrugs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Okruhas of the Ukrainian SSR

Map of the okruhas in 1929—1930.
CategorySubdivision of a unitary state
Location Ukrainian SSR
Created
  • 1918-1930
Number40 (53 initially) (as of 1930)
Subdivisions

As a literal translation, the word okruha means vicinity or neighborhood (sharing a root with the words "circle" and "around", a close equivalent is the German term Bezirk). This level of subdivision is roughly equivalent to that of a county, parish, or borough. Okruhas were first established in 1918 when the Polissya Okruha and Taurida Okruha were created as temporary territories of the Ukrainian State of 1918.

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