okrug

plural okrugs · plural okruga · alternative Ukraine okruh

1. An administrative division of some Slavic states.

   In 1929 the eight uezdy were replaced by five okruga.

   2025 April 15, Stephan Rindlisbacher, “Gosplan: How to Achieve Spatial Homogeneity”, in Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 59

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   It should also be taken into account, that the creation of okruga was carried out without consideration of the country’s economic divisions and regions’ economic potentials. The number and structure of federal okruga should be specified further. Therefore, given that okruga continue evolving as centers of governance over social and economic territorial development, change of structure and organization principles can be viewed as a long­ term task.

   2001, Dmitry Badovsky, “The system of federal districts and the institute of PolPredy of the Russian Federation”, in Rafael Khakimov, Donald J. Jacobsen (of English translation), Natalia Dolgova Jacobsen (likewise), editors, Federalism in Russia, Kazan, Tatarstan: Kazan Institute of Federalism, →ISBN, page 79

   Eighteen additional nationalities had territorial enclaves (autonomous oblasts and okruga) but possessed very little power of self-government.

   2002 May, Choon Taeck Kong, Multicultural Theological Education at the Kazakhstan Evangelical Christian Seminary, Los Angeles, Calif.: Claremont School of Theology, →OCLC, page 18