Murmansk Okrug
| (Administrative centers are given in parentheses) | |
| Districts | 1. Alexandrovsky (selo of Alexandrovskoye) 2. Kolsko-Loparsky (selo of Kola) 3. Lovozersky (selo of Lovozero) 4. Ponoysky (selo of Ponoy) 5. Teribersky (selo of Teriberka) 6. Tersky (selo of Kuzomen) |
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| (Administrative centers are given in parentheses) | |
| Districts | 1. Kirovsky (town of Kirovsk) 2. Kolsky (selo of Kola) 3. Lovozersky (selo of Lovozero) 4. Polyarny (town of Murmansk) 5. Saamsky (selo of Iokanga) 6. Teribersky (stanovishche of Teriberka) 7. Tersky (work settlement of Lesnoy) |
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| Cities and towns | 1. Murmansk (okrug administrative center) |
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| Districts | 1. Kirovsky 2. Kolsky 3. Lovozersky 4. Polyarny 5. Saamsky 6. Teribersky 7. Tersky |
Murmansk Okrug (Russian: Му́рманский о́круг, Murmansky okrug) was an administrative division (an okrug) of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, which existed in 1927–1938.
The okrug was established on August 1, 1927, when the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) issued two Resolutions: "On the Establishment of Leningrad Oblast" and "On the Borders and Composition of the Okrugs of Leningrad Oblast". According to these resolutions, Murmansk Governorate was transformed into Murmansk Okrug and included into Leningrad Oblast together with eight other okrugs. The okrug was not contiguous with the rest of Leningrad Oblast and was separated from it by the territory of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Upon the transformation, the administrative structure of the okrug was also changed. Instead of the nine volosts into which Murmansk Governorate was divided, the territory of the okrug was divided into six districts.
Just as numerous proposals to change the administrative-territorial structure of Murmansk Governorate, the okrug's predecessor, had been submitted, the work on changing the administrative-territorial structure of the new okrug soon commenced. This time, however, the ethnic composition of the territory became a priority.
On October 25, 1926, the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars adopted a Temporary Provision "On the Governing of the Native Peoples and Tribes of the Extreme North of the RSFSR", which dealt with the peoples and the tribes of the Extreme North who did not have any forms of ethnic government in place. On May 30, 1927, the provision was extended to cover the Lapps (Sami) and the Samoyeds of Murmansk Governorate, allowing them to create special ethnic-based organs of the local self-government. Until 1928, the Sami and Samoyeds used the same forms of government as elsewhere on the Kola Peninsula—the selsoviets and the district executive committees. However, in preparation for the winter 1928–1929 soviet elections, the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee and the Committee of the North initiated planning to establish ethnic Sami soviets in the ethnic pogosts. On October 11, 1928, the Presidium of the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee decreed to establish thirteen ethnic Sami soviets:
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