Okruhas of the Ukrainian SSR

Not to be confused with Okrugs of the Ukrainian SSR.
Okruhas of the Ukrainian SSR

Map of the okruhas in 1929—1930.
Category Subdivision of a unitary state
Location  Ukrainian SSR
Created 1918-1930
Number 40 (53 initially) (as of 1930)
Subdivisions raions (districts)

Okruha (Ukrainian: Окру́га) refers to the historical administrative divisions 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.

As a literal translation, the word "okruha" means vicinity or neighborhood (sharing a root with the words "circle" and "around"). 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 during the Russian Revolution.

History

Formation

First okruhas, created just before 1918, were Polissya Okruha centered in Mozyr and Taurida Okruha centered in Berdyansk. Okruhas were first introduced on a widespread scale on April 12, 1923 at the 2nd session of the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine which accepted the declaration "About the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine". According to the declaration, the Ukrainian SSR was divided into 53 okruhas that included 706 raions, thus replacing the imperial division consisting of 102 povits (counties) that included 1989 volosts.

Reorganization of 1923-1926

Disestablishment

First oblasts of Ukraine at the end of 1932 including recently created Donetsk and Chernihiv oblasts.

On August 5, 1930, the "News of Central Executive Committee of Ukraine"[5] reported that on August 3, 1930, there was a session of the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine Presidium chaired by Grigoriy Petrovsky where a report by Mykola Vasylenko on the liquidation of the system of okruhas was discussed. In the adopted resolution, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine generally approved and endorsed the submitted projects from the government commission.

Likewise, the Presidium of Central Executive Committee of Ukraine generally approved the principle and order in the organization of local and central authorities. The Presidium requested that the commission and the Council of Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR, on the basis of the approved principles, develop a draft resolution on the liquidation of okruhas and the structure of authorities, both local and central, in connection with the transition to the rayon system.[6]

List of okruhas

Chernigov Governorate

  • Konotop Okruha
  • Nizhyn Okruha
  • Novohorod-Siversky Okruha
  • Snovsk Okruha (liquidated in June 1925)
  • Chernihiv Okruha

Donetsk Governorate

  • Artemivsk Okruha (initially—Bakhmut)
  • Luhansk Okruha
  • Mariupil Okruha
  • Starobilsk Okruha
  • Tahanrih Okruha
  • Shakhty Okruha
  • Staline Okruha (initially—Yuzivka)

Kharkov Governorate

  • Okhtyrka Okruha (initially—Bohodukhiv, liquidated in June 1925)
  • Izyum Okruha
  • Kupiansk Okruha
  • Sumy Okruha
  • Kharkiv Okruha

Kiev Governorate

  • Berdychiv Okruha
  • Bila Tserkva Okruha
  • Kyiv Okruha
  • Malyn Okruha (liquidated in October 1924)
  • Uman Okruha
  • Cherkasy Okruha
  • Shevchenko Okruha (initially—Korsun; liquidated in June 1925)

Odessa Governorate

  • Balta Okruha (abolished in November 1924)
  • Zinovievsk Okruha (initially—Lysavethrad)
  • Mykolaiv Okruha
  • Odessa Okruha
  • Pershomaisk Okruha
  • Kherson Okruha

Podolia Governorate

  • Vinnytsia Okruha
  • Haisyn Okruha (liquidated in June 1925)
  • Kamianets Okruha
  • Mohyliv Okruha
  • Proskuriv Okruha
  • Tulchyn Okruha

Poltava Governorate

  • Zolotonosha Okruha (abolished in June 1925)
  • Krasnohrad Okruha (initially—Kostyantynohrad, abolished in June 1925)
  • Kremenchuk Okruha
  • Lubny Okruha
  • Poltava Okruha
  • Pryluky Okruha
  • Romny Okruha

Volhynian Governorate

  • Zhytomyr Okruha
  • Korosten Okruha
  • Shepetivka Okruha

Yekaterinoslav Governorate

  • Berdyansk Okruha (liquidated in June 1925)
  • Zaporizhia Okruha
  • Katerynoslav Okruha
  • Kryvyi Rih Okruha
  • Melitopol Okruha
  • Oleksandriia Okruha (liquidated in June 1925)
  • Pavlohrad Okruha

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Declaration of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR "About liquidation of the Balta Okruha in Odessa Governorate and about transferring the city of Balta and part of the Balta Raion to the Autonomous Maoldavian SSR and about division of selected raions of the Balta Okruha" (ukr)
  2. ↑ Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union "About changing name of Yuzovka city to the city of Stalin, Yuzovka okruha to okruha Stalinska and station of the Yuzovo-Yekaterina railroad to the station Stalino"
  3. ↑ Declaration of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee "About change name of the city Lysavethrad to the city of Zinovievsk and the Lysavetghrad Okruha to the Zinovievsk Okruha" (ukr)
  4. ↑ Declaration of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee "About the liquidation of the Malyn Okruha in Kiev Governorate" (ukr)
  5. ↑ News of VUTsVK at the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ Президія ВУЦВК про ліквідацію округ (Presidium of Central Executive Committee of Ukraine about the liguidation of okruhas). Archive of old newspapers. October 9, 2012. (Ukrainian)
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