Okrugs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic explained

Okrugs of the Ukrainian SSR
Map:
Administrative division of Ukraine in 1932-37.
Category:Subdivision of an oblast
Start Date:1933-1938
Current Number:7 (1 initially)
Number Date:1937
Subdivision:raions (districts)

An okrug or okruha (Ukrainian: округа) 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.

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

Kiev Oblast

Donetsk Oblast