Tavria Okruha (Ukrainian: Таврійська округа, romanized: Tavriiska okruha) was an administrative subdivision of the Ukrainian State (Ukraine) created in April 1918. The okruha was governed by a starosta from Berdiansk. The territory consisted of the continental part of the earlier Tavria guberniia, without the territory of the Crimean Peninsula.
| Tavria Okruha Таврійська округа | |||||||||||
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| Okruha of Ukraine | |||||||||||
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| Capital | Berdiansk | ||||||||||
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• Split of Taurida Governorate | 1918 | ||||||||||
• Split into Mykolaiv Governorate and Zaporizhzhia Governorate | 1920 | ||||||||||
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Following withdrawal of the forces of the Central powers in late 1918, Russian tri-colors of the Armed Forces of South Russia were raised in most of the okruha, except for a few localities in Dnipro County closer to Kherson Governorate.
After the Bolsheviks took control, the okruha was split between the Kherson Governorate and Oleksandrivsk (Zaporizhzhia) Governorate.
Subdivisions edit
- Dnipro County (Dniprovskyi povit)
- Melitopol County (Melitopolskyi povit)
- Berdiansk County (Berdianskyi povit)
Governors edit
- summer–fall 1918: Oleksandr Desnytskyi (gubernatorial starosta)
- 1918–1919: Ihor Lutskenko (as Kherson gubernatorial commissar)
See also edit