okruh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôʹkʀo͝oʜ
ipa: /ˈɔːkrʊhj/
ipa: [ˈɔːkrʊç]
Forms: form: okruhs
form: okruhy
Etymology: From Ukrainian о́круг (ókruh).
Senses: examples: text: At the time of the 1926 census Ukrainian lands in the U.S.S.R. were administratively divided into okruhs (divisions or departments) and rayons (districts).
ref: 1976 [1974 spring], “Notes”, in Olena Saciuk, Bohdan Yasen, transl., compiled by Maksym Sahaydak, Etnocide of Ukrainians in the U.S.S.R. (The Ukrainian Herald: An Underground Journal from Soviet Ukraine; 7–8), Baltimore, Md.: Smoloskyp Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, note 50, page 183:
text: Czechoslovakia had zemli (lands) and okruhy (districts). Still almost everywhere historical memory of the Ukrainian people has preserved age-long used names.
ref: 1998, M. F. Dmytrienko, O. Ye. Markova, All about Ukraine, part I (The state and people), Kyiv: Видавничий дім «Альтернативи» [Vydavnyčyj dim “Alʹternatyvy”], →ISBN, page 71, column 1:
roman: Vydavnyčyj dim “Alʹternatyvy”
text: In 1923, okruhs (regions) and raions (districts) replaced volosti and counties, and in 1925 the division into gubernias was abolished. The Ukrainian okruhs of Tahanrih and Shakhty were ceded to Russia in 1924.
ref: 2005, Zenon E[ugene] Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich, “Administrative Divisions of Ukraine”, in Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (Historical Dictionaries of Europe; 45), Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 20:
text: During the second half of the 1920s the borders of the Soviet Ukraine were altered on several occasions. The biggest change came in 1925, when the far eastern okruhs of Shakhty and Taganrog (a total of 10,900 square miles or 28,000 square kilometers) were transferred to Soviet Russia.
ref: 2007, Paul Robert Magocsi, “Soviet Ukraine in the Interwar Years”, in Ukraine: An Illustrated History, Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 223:
text: The remainder of this chapter investigates the causal factors behind the proportion of each oblast’s vote for successful candidates classified as “in favor” on each of the three issues. The winners’ votes were summed across all okruhs within each oblast.
ref: 2014, Robert S[acha] Kravchuk, Victor Chudowsky, “Ukraine’s 1994 Elections as an Economic Event”, in Paul D’Anieri, Taras Kuzio, editors, Aspects of the Orange Revolution I: Democratization and Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society), Stuttgart: ibidem Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 34:
text: The data is drawn from the okruhy of Volyn’, Lubny, Luhans’k, Mariulop’, Melitopol’, Mykolaiiv’, Nizhyn, Pervomais’k, Pryluky, Poltava, Proskuriv, Odessa.
ref: 2020, Daria Mattingly, “Idle, Drunk, and Good for Nothing: Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the 1932–33 Famine in Ukraine”, in Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper, editors, The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Memory of Holodomor), 58:
text: Access to social and administrative services can be facilitated through local authorities at the starostynskyi okruh level, which helps residents obtain the necessary services without traveling to distant locations. For instance, local authorities in Tomakivska, Myrivska, Sofiivska, and Hrechano-Podivska hromadas in Dnipropetrovska Oblast, as well as Novomykolaivska hromada in Zaporizka Oblast, are actively working to ensure that residents can access social benefits, allowances, and subsidies through their respective starosta okruhs, using specialized software from the Unified Information System of the Social Sphere to assist residents in processing the required documentation.
ref: 2024 November, Danish Refugee Council, “Civil status, access to remedies and justice” (pages 16–18), in DRC Quarterly Protection Monitoring Report: Ukraine (July–September 2024), page 16:
text: On March 20, Pavlo Shamshyn, spokesman for the Kharkiv Autonomous Okruh, noted that spring weather is impacting the course of fighting in Kharkiv Oblast.
ref: 2025 March 23, “Russians advance in Kamyanka and Topoli villages of Kharkiv Oblast”, in Alona Sonko, editor, The New Voice of Ukraine, Kyiv, →OCLC:
text: To concentrate on the bigger picture, I must neglect certain episodes of territorial reform. For example, the Ukrainian Soviet government dissolved the okruhy (okruga) in 1930 and introduced oblasti only in early 1932.
ref: 2025 April 15, Stephan Rindlisbacher, “Notes”, in Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, note 151, page 208:
glosses: Alternative form of okrug.