OKRUG

'Okrug' (; Serbian and ; , translit. ''okruha''; Polish ''okręg'') is a term used in some Eastern European Slavic states to denote an administrative division. Etymologically, the word is similar to the German word ''Bezirk'' ("district"); both ''okrug'' and ''Bezirk'' refer to something "encircled" (compare circle (country subdivision)).

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Bulgaria

Imperial Russia

Soviet Union

Russian Federation

Serbia

See also

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Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, ''okrugs'', translated as "districts" or "counties", were a subdivision of the larger ''oblasts'' (provinces) that existed between 1987 and 1999.

Imperial Russia

''Okrugs'' were a type of administrative division in Imperial Russia. Until 1920, ''okrugs'' were administrative districts in Cossack hosts.

Soviet Union

Russian Federation

In the present-day Russian Federation, the term ''okrug'' is either translated as "district" or rendered directly as "okrug", and is used to describe the following types of divisions:

★ Federal Districts (''federalny okrug''), such as the Siberian Federal District;

★ Autonomous okrugs (''avtonomny okrug''), such as Chukotka Autonomous Okrug;

★ Komi-Permyak Okrug, a territory with special status within Perm Krai.
''Okrug'' is also used to describe the administrative divisions of the two "federal cities" in Russia:

★ the administrative okrugs of Moscow are an upper-level administrative division.

★ the municipal okrugs of St. Petersburg are a lower-level administrative division.
Furthermore, the designation ''okrug'' denotes several ''selsovet''-level administrative divisions:

★ okrugs, such as okrugs of Samara Oblast.

★ rural okrugs (''selsky okrug''), such as the rural okrugs of Belgorod Oblast.

★ rural territorial okrugs (''selsky territorialny okrug''), such as the rural territorial okrugs of Murmansk Oblast.

★ stanitsa okrugs (''stanichny okrug''), such as the stanitsa okrugs of Krasnodar Krai.
''Okrug'' is also used to describe a type of a municipal unit, the "municipal urban okrug". This is a municipal urban settlement not incorporated into a municipal district.

Serbia

The Republic of Serbia is divided into twenty-nine ''okrugs'' as well as the "district city" of Belgrade. The term ''okrug'' in Serbia is often translated as either "district" or "county".

See also

★ Military district

★ Country subdivision

External links

★ Okruha in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine