释义 |
‖ okrug|ˈɒkrʊg| [a. Russ. and Bulg. ókrug.] In Russia and Bulgaria, a territorial division for administrative and other purposes. Also attrib. Cf. oblast.
1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 69/2 Area and population of the Russian Empire... Okrugs, or otdyels (territories) under military government. 1902Ibid. XXVI. 448/2 The country [sc. Bulgaria] is divided into twenty-two departments (okrŭg, pl. okrŭzi), each administered by a prefect. 1935B. W. Maxwell Soviet State i. i. 30 Russia, before the Revolution, was divided for purposes of administration into seventy-eight governments (guberniya), twenty-one regions (oblast), and one circuit (okrug). 1958D. J. R. Scott Russ. Polit. Institutions ii. 74 The new administrative okrugs..completed in 1952, were the product of a new acute phase of the persistent concern over effective supervision of districts by higher authorities... Shortly after the death of Stalin..the okrugs began to be abolished again, and none of them is now in existence. 1971J. S. Reshetar Soviet Polity vii. 257 The least of the ethnic autonomous administrative units is the ‘national area’ (okrug). They have been established for the numerically small peoples of the Soviet Far North and Far East who inhabit large and sparsely populated areas. 1976Survey Spring 65 There are [in the USSR] 14 union republic central committees, 10 okrug committees..and 4,243 city and raion committees. |