Okrug

{{Main article|Provinces of Bulgaria}}

In Bulgaria, {{Transliteration|bg|okrag}}s are the abolished primary unit of the administrative division and implied "districts" or "counties". They existed in the postwar Bulgaria between 1946 and 1987 and corresponded approximately to today's oblasts.

{{Main article|District (Poland)}}

As historical administrative subdivisions of Poland, {{Lang|pl|okręgi}} existed in the later part of the Congress Poland period, from 1842, when the name was applied to the former powiats (the name {{Lang|pl|powiat}} being transferred to the former obwody).Administrative division of the Congress Poland {{in lang|pl}} See: subdivisions of Congress Poland.

{{Lang|pl|Okręgi}} were also created temporarily from 1945 to 1946, in the areas annexed to Poland from Germany as a result of the Soviet military advance. An {{Lang|pl|okręg}} was then subdivided into {{Lang|pl|obwody}}. These {{Lang|pl|okręgi}} were later replaced by voivodeships, and the {{Lang|pl|obwody}} by {{Lang|pl|powiat}}s.{{Cite web |url=http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/iza.php?nrarchiwum=65&nrzespolu=357&cdnumeru=0&mode=showzesp&search1=get&offset=100 |title=Article in Polish re 1945-46 |access-date=2013-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023080501/http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/iza.php?nrarchiwum=65&nrzespolu=357&cdnumeru=0&mode=showzesp&search1=get&offset=100 |archive-date=2007-10-23 }}

Okrugs were one of the several types of administrative division for oblasts and selected governorates in Imperial Russia. Until the 1920s, okrugs were administrative districts in Cossack hosts such as the Don Cossacks.

{{See|Okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic}}

Inherited from Imperial Russia, in the 1920s, okrugs were administrative divisions of several other primary divisions such as oblasts, krais, and others. For some time in the 1920s they also served as the primary unit upon the abolishment of guberniyas and were divided into raions. On 30 July 1930 most of the okrugs were abolished. The remaining okrugs were phased out in the Russian SFSR during 1930–1946, although they were retained in Zakarpattia Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR in a status equivalent to that of a raion.

National okrugs were first created in the Mountain ASSR of the Russian SFSR in 1921 as units of the Soviet autonomy and additional national okrugs were created in the Russian SFSR for the peoples of the north and Caucasus region. In 1977, all national okrugs were renamed autonomous okrugs.

{{Main article|Political divisions of Russia}}

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 ({{Transliteration|ru|federalny okrug}}), such as the Siberian Federal District
• Autonomous okrugs ({{Transliteration|ru|avtonomny okrug}}), such as Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

After the series of mergers in 2005–2008, several autonomous okrugs of Russia lost their federal subject status and are now considered to be administrative territories within the federal subjects they had been merged into:

• Agin-Buryat Okrug, a territory with special status within Zabaykalsky Krai
• Komi-Permyak Okrug, a territory with special status within Perm Krai
• Koryak Okrug, a territory with special status within Kamchatka Krai
• Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug, a territory with special status within Irkutsk Oblast

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 is a lower-level administrative division

In the federal city of Sevastopol, municipal okrugs are a type of municipal formation.

In Tver Oblast, the term okrug also denotes a type of an administrative division which is equal in status to that of the districts.

Furthermore, the designation okrug denotes several selsoviet-level administrative divisions:

• okrugs, such as okrugs of Samara Oblast
• rural okrugs ({{Transliteration|ru|selsky okrug}}), such as the rural okrugs of Belgorod Oblast
• rural territorial okrugs ({{Transliteration|ru|selsky territorialny okrug}}), such as the rural territorial okrugs of Murmansk Oblast
• stanitsa okrugs ({{Transliteration|ru|stanichny okrug}}), such as the stanitsa okrugs of Krasnodar Krai

In some cities, the term okrug is used to refer to the administrative divisions of those cities. Administrative okrugs are such divisions in the cities of Murmansk, Omsk, and Tyumen; city okrugs are used in Krasnodar; municipal okrugs are the divisions of Nazran; okrugs exist in Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, and Novorossiysk; and territorial okrugs are the divisions of Arkhangelsk and Lipetsk.

The term okrug is also used to describe a type of a municipal formation, the municipal urban okrug—a municipal urban settlement not incorporated into a municipal district.{{cite Russian law

|ru_entity=Государственная Дума Российской Федерации

|ru_type=Федеральный Закон

|ru_number=131-ФЗ

|ru_date=6 октября 2003 г.

|ru_title=Об общих принципах организации местного самоуправления в Российской Федерации

|ru_amendment_type=Федерального Закона

|ru_amendment_number=290-ФЗ

|ru_amendment_date=4 октября 2014 г

|en_entity=State Duma of the Russian Federation

|en_type=Federal Law

|en_number=131-FZ

|en_date=October 6, 2003

|en_title=On the General Principles of Organization of the Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation

|en_amendment_number=290-FZ

|en_amendment_type=Federal Law

|en_amendment_date=September 28, 2010

}}

{{Main article|Districts of Serbia}}

{{See also|Administrative divisions of Serbia}}

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

• Administrative division
• Krai
• Military district
• Oblast

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