autonomous okrug

English

Noun

autonomous okrug (plural autonomous okrugs)

1. In the Soviet Union and Russia, a territorial and administrative division of a krai or oblast, which grants a degree of administrative autonomy to an ethnic minority, usually located in large, remote areas with sparse populations.

Synonyms

• AO

Derived terms

• Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug
• Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
• Evenk Autonomous Okrug
• Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
• Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
• Koryak Autonomous Okrug
• Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• Taymyr Autonomous Okrug
• Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug
• Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

 

Translations

a territorial and administrative division — see also AO

• Armenian: ինքնավար օկրուգ (inkʿnavar ōkrug)
• Danish: autonome okrug
• Russian: автоно́мный о́круг (ru) (avtonómnyj ókrug)