Okrugs of the Ukrainian SSR

An okrug (Russian: округ) or okruha (Ukrainian: окру́га) is one of a series of special administrative divisions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic that were part of three oblasts and existed from 1933 to 1937 (some to 1938). Most of them were border administrative units that existed along the western border of the Soviet Union.

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

Administrative division of Ukraine in 1932-37.
CategorySubdivision of an oblast
Location Ukrainian SSR
Created1933-1938
Number7 (1 initially) (as of 1937)
Subdivisionsraions (districts)

List of okrugs

Most of okrugs existed within the Vinnytsia Oblast. Special agricultural okrug centered in Starobilsk existed within the Donetsk Oblast. The border okrugs from 1935 to 1937, while the Starobilsk okrug existed in 1933-1938.

Vinnytsia Oblast
  • Kamianets-Podilsky Okrug
  • Mohyliv-Podilsky Okrug
  • Proskuriv Okrug
  • Shepetivka Okrug

Kiev Oblast
  • Korosten Okrug
  • Novohrad-Volynsky Okrug

Donetsk Oblast
  • Starobilsk Okrug

References
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