hidden Areas AREAS (Okrug), adm./territorial units introduced in the USSR by the first Soviet adm./territorial division reform (1923-29). The reform was developed by the Gosplan (State organization for the economic planning) and consisted in cancellation of the... more

hidden Rural Councils VILLAGE SOVIETS, lower-level adm. and territorial units, parts of districts. They were established everywhere in the USSR during the first Soviet reform of adm./territorial division in 1923-29, according to which, the previous three-level division... more