Northern Krai
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Northern Krai was a krai
Krai
Krai or kray was a type of an administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, and is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia ....

(a first-level administrative and municipal unit) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , commonly referred to as Soviet Russia, Bolshevik Russia, or simply Russia, was the largest, most populous and economically developed republic in the former Soviet Union....

 from 1929 to 1936. Its seat was in the city of Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

. The Krai was located in the North of European Russia, and its territory is currently divided between Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea....

, Vologda
Vologda Oblast
Vologda Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is Vologda. The largest city is Cherepovets.Vologda Oblast is rich in historic monuments, such as the magnificent Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Ferapontov Convent , medieval towns of Velikiy Ustyug and Belozersk, baroque...

, Kostroma
Kostroma Oblast
Kostroma Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kostroma.Major historic towns include Kostroma, Sharya, Nerekhta, Galich, Soligalich, and Makaryev. Textile industries have been developed there since the early 18th century...

, and Kirov
Kirov Oblast
Kirov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. Population: -History:In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Vyatka remained a place of exile for opponents of the tsarist regime, including many prominent revolutionary figures.In 1920, a number of...

 Oblasts, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Nenets Autonomous Okrug is a federal subject of Russia .It has an area of 176,700 km2 and population of 42,628 as of the preliminary results of the 2010 Census , 21,296 of whom live in Naryan-Mar, the administrative center.-Geography and ecology:The arctic ecology of this...

, and the Komi Republic
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic is a federal subject of Russia .-Geography:The republic is situated to the west of the Ural mountains, in the north-east of the East European Plain...

.

History

The krai was established on January 14, 1929 by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
All-Russian Central Executive Committee
All-Russian Central Executive Committee , was the highest legislative, administrative, and revising body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Although the All-Russian Congress of Soviets had supreme authority, in periods between its sessions its powers were passed to VTsIK...

. The territory of the krai was formed from three governorate
Governorate
A governorate is an administrative division of a country. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states, provinces, or colonies, the term governorate is often used in translation from non-English-speaking administrations.The...

s (Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk Governorate
Archangelsk Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Arkhangelsk...

, Vologda
Vologda Governorate
The Vologda Governorate or Government of Vologda was a guberniya in the historical northern region of the European part of Russian Empire.In its size it was second right after the neighboring Archangelgorod Governorate...

, and Northern Dvina
Northern Dvina Governorate
Northern Dvina Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1929. Its seat was in the city of Veliky Ustyug. The governorate was located in the North of European Russia, and its territory is currently divided between Arkhangelsk, Vologda,...

) and the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast
Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast
Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast, one of several autonomous oblast's that existed in the former Soviet Union, was created August 22, 1921. It was the predecessor of the Komi Republic. The seat of the Oblast was located in Ust-Sysolsk ....

.

On July 15, 1929 the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued a decree splitting the Northern Krai (with the exception of the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast, which remain as a single unit with the seat in Ust-Sysolsk
Syktyvkar
-Twin towns/sister cities:Syktyvkar is twinned with the following sister cities: Cullera, Spain Debrecen, Hungary Los Altos, United States Lovech, Bulgaria Taiyuan, China-External links:* * * *...

, and the islands of Vaygach, Kolguev, Matveyev, Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya , also known in Dutch as Nova Zembla and in Norwegian as , is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia and the extreme northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe lying at Cape Flissingsky on the northern island...

, Solovetsky Islands
Solovetsky Islands
The Solovetsky Islands , or Solovki , are an archipelago located in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, Russia. The islands are served by the Solovki Airport. Area: ....

, and Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land, or Francis Joseph's Land is an archipelago located in the far north of Russia. It is found in the Arctic Ocean north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard, and is administered by Arkhangelsk Oblast. Franz Josef Land consists of 191 ice-covered islands with a...

) into five administrative districts (okrug
Okrug
Okrug is an administrative division of some Slavic states. The word "okrug" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "district", or "region"....

s
)
  • Arkhangelsky Okrug (with the seat located in Arkhangelsk
    Arkhangelsk
    Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

    ;
  • Nenetsky Okrug (with the borders and the seat to be defined);
  • Northern Dvina Okrug (Veliky Ustyug
    Veliky Ustyug
    Veliky Ustyug is a town in the northeast of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . It also serves as the administrative center of Velikoustyugsky District, by which it is completely...

    );
  • Nyandomsky Okrug (Nyandoma);
  • Vologodsky Okrug (Vologda
    Vologda
    Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...

    ).

Before the Krai was established, the division of its constituent governorates mixed the old division inherited from the Russian Empire (uyezd
Uyezd
Uyezd or uezd was an administrative subdivision of Rus', Muscovy, Russian Empire, and the early Russian SFSR which was in use from the 13th century. Uyezds for most of the history in Russia were a secondary-level of administrative division...

s) with the new one (districts, or raion
Raion
A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

s). The same decree established the division of the Krai into districts. All okrugs and the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast were divided into districts, and the Arctic ocean islands remained subordinate to the Krai executive committee.

The following districts have been established,
  • In the Arkhangelsky Okrug: Arkhangelsky
    Arkhangelsky District
    Arkhangelsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Arkhangelskoye...

     (with the administrative center in Arkhangelsk
    Arkhangelsk
    Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

    ), Bereznikovsky
    Vinogradovsky District
    Vinogradovsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Vinogradovsky Municipal District...

     (Bereznik
    Bereznik
    Bereznik , also known as Dvinskoy Bereznik is an urban type settlement and the administrative center of Vinogradovsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Northern Dvina River, southeast of Kholmogorskaya railway station and away from Arkhangelsk...

    ), Chekuyevsky (Chekuyevo), Karpogorsky (Karpogory
    Karpogory
    Karpogory is a rural locality and the administrative center of Pinezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Pinega River. It also serves as the administrative center of Karpogorsky Selsoviet, one of the seventeen selsoviets into which the district is...

    ), Kholmogorsky (Kholmogory
    Kholmogory
    Kholmogory is a historic village and the administrative center of Kholmogorsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on the left bank of the Northern Dvina, along the Kholmogory Highway, 75 km southeast of Arkhangelsk and 90 km north of the Antonievo-Siysky Monastery. The name...

    ), Leshukonsky
    Leshukonsky District
    Leshukonsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Leshukonsky Municipal District...

     (Leshukonskoye
    Leshukonskoye
    Leshukonskoye is a rural locality and the administrative center of Leshukonsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vashka River. It also serves as the administrative center of Leshukonsky Selsoviet, one of the thirteen selsoviets into which the district is...

    ), Mezensky
    Mezensky District
    Mezensky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Mezensky Municipal District...

     (Mezen
    Mezen
    -See also:*Administrative divisions of Arkhangelsk Oblast...

    ), Onezhsky
    Onezhsky District
    Onezhsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Onezhsky Municipal District...

     (Onega
    Onega
    Onega may refer to:*Lake Onega, Russia*Onega River, Russia*Onega, Russia, a town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia*Onega Bay , Russia*Onega Peninsula, Russia*Onega, Texas , United States*Onega, Minnesota, United States-Other:...

    ), Pinezhsky
    Pinezhsky District
    Pinezhsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Pinezhsky Municipal District...

     (Pinega
    Pinega
    Pinega is a settlement, formerly a town, in Pinezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Pinega River . It serves as the administrative center of Pinezhsky Selsoviet, one of the seventeen selsoviets into which the district is administratively divided...

    ), Plesetsky (the settlement at the Plesetskaya railway station), Primorsky
    Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
    Primorsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Primorsky Municipal District...

     (Arkhangelsk
    Arkhangelsk
    Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

    ), and Yemetsky (Yemetsk).
  • In the Nenetsky Okrug: Kanino-Timansky (Nizhnyaya Pesha), Nenetsky (Khoseda-Khord).
  • In the Northern Dvina Okrug: Cherevkovsky (Cherevkovo), Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky
    Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District
    Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky Municipal District...

     (Kichmengsky Gorodok
    Kichmengsky Gorodok
    Kichmengsky Gorodok is a rural locality and the administrative center of Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Yug River, at the confluence with the Kichmenga River. It also serves as the administrative center of Kichmengsky Selsoviet, one of the...

    ), Kotlassky (Kotlas
    Kotlas
    Kotlas is a town in the southeast of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . It also serves as the administrative center of Kotlassky District, by which it is...

    ), Krasnoborsky
    Krasnoborsky District
    Krasnoborsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Krasnoborsky Municipal District...

     (Krasnoborsk
    Krasnoborsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast
    Krasnoborsk is a rural locality and the administrative center of Krasnoborsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Northern Dvina River. It also serves as the administrative center of Alexeyevsky Selsoviet, one of the ten selsoviets into which the district is...

    ), Lalsky (Lalsk), Lensky
    Lensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
    Lensky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Lensky Municipal District...

     (Yarensk
    Yarensk
    Yarensk is a selo of 4,100 people located on the bank of the Vychegda River near its confluence with the Yarenga. It is the center of Lensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast....

    ), Nikolsky
    Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast
    Nikolsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Nikolsky Municipal District...

     (Nikolsk
    Nikolsk, Vologda Oblast
    Nikolsk is a town and the administrative center of Nikolsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia,, located on the right bank of the Yug River close to the point where it flows into the White Sea. Municipally, it is incorporated as Nikolskoye Urban Settlement in Nikolsky Municipal District...

    ), Oparinsky
    Oparinsky District
    Oparinsky District is an administrative district , one of the 39 in Kirov Oblast, Russia....

     (settlement at the Oparino railway station), Podosinovsky
    Podosinovsky District
    Podosinovsky District is an administrative district , one of the 39 in Kirov Oblast, Russia....

     (Podosinovets), Roslyatinsky (Roslyatino), Sukhonsky (Gorodishchenskoye), Velikoustyugsky
    Velikoustyugsky District
    Velikoustyugsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Velikoustyugsky Municipal District...

     (Veliky Ustyug
    Veliky Ustyug
    Veliky Ustyug is a town in the northeast of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . It also serves as the administrative center of Velikoustyugsky District, by which it is completely...

    ), Verkhnetoyemsky
    Verkhnetoyemsky District
    Verkhnetoyemsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Verkhnetoyemsky Municipal District...

     (Verkhnyaya Toyma
    Verkhnyaya Toyma
    Verkhnyaya Toyma is an airport in Russia located 1 km northeast of the rural locality of Verkhnyaya Toyma. It is a paved civilian airstrip serving the region northwest of Kotlas. It is capable of handling Yak-42 and An-24 aircraft...

    ), Vilegodsky
    Vilegodsky District
    Vilegodsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Vilegodsky Municipal District...

     (Ilyinsko-Podomskoye
    Ilyinsko-Podomskoye
    Ilyinsko-Podomskoye is a rural locality and the administrative center of Vilegodsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Viled River. It also serves as the administrative center of Ilyinsky Selsoviet, one of the ten selsoviets into which the district is...

    ), Vokhomsky
    Vokhomsky District
    Vokhomsky District is an administrative district , one of the 24 in Kostroma Oblast, Russia....

     (Vokhma).
  • In the Nyandoma Okrug: Kargopolsky (Kargopol
    Kargopol
    -Culture and recreation:Today, Kargopol is a sleepy historical town adjoining the Kenozyorsky National Park. It is best known in Russia for Kargopol toys , which are small, simple clay figures painted in traditional style....

    ), Konoshsky (settlement at the Konosha
    Konosha
    Konosha is an urban locality Konosha is an urban locality Konosha is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Konoshsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Konosha River, south of Arkhangelsk. It also serves as the administrative center of...

     railway station), Nyandomsky
    Nyandomsky District
    Nyandomsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Nyandomsky Municipal District...

     (Nyandoma), Priozyorny (Konyovo), Rovdinsky (Rovdino), Shenkursky
    Shenkursky District
    Shenkursky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Shenkursky Municipal District...

     (Shenkursk
    Shenkursk
    Shenkursk is a town and the administrative center of Shenkursky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Vaga River. Municipally, it is incorporated as Shenkurskoye Urban Settlement of Shenkursky Municipal District. Population:...

    ), Ustyansky
    Ustyansky District
    Ustyansky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Ustyansky Municipal District...

     (Shangaly), Velsky
    Velsky District
    Velsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Velsky Municipal District...

     (Velsk), Verkhovazhsky
    Verkhovazhsky District
    Verkhovazhsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Verkhovazhsky Municipal District...

     (Verkhovazhye
    Verkhovazhye
    Verkhovazhye is a rural locality and the administrative center of Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Vaga River. It also serves as the administrative center of Verkhovazhsky Selsoviet, one of the fourteen selsoviets into which the district is...

    ).
  • In the Vologda Okrug: Chyobsarsky (settlement at the Chyobsara
    Chyobsara
    Chyobsara is an urban locality in Sheksninsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located from Vologda. Municipally, it is incorporated as Chyobsarskoye Urban Settlement, one of the two urban settlements in the district. Population: -History:The settlement was founded as a railway station in 1898...

     railway station), Gryazovetsky
    Gryazovetsky District
    Gryazovetsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Gryazovetsky Municipal District...

     (Gryazovets
    Gryazovets
    Gryazovets is a town and the administrative center of Gryazovetsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Gryazovetskoe Urban Settlement in Gryazovetsky Municipal District. Population: -History:...

    ), Kharovsky
    Kharovsky District
    Kharovsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Kharovsky Municipal District. It is located in the center of the oblast and borders with Vozhegodsky District in the north, Syamzhensky District in the east,...

     (settlement at the Kharovsk
    Kharovsk
    Kharovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kharovsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia,, located on the Kubena River north of Vologda. Kharovsk also serves as the administrative center of Kharovsky Selsoviet which it is administratively not part of. Municipally, it is incorporated as a...

    aya railway station), Kokshengsky (Tarnogsky Gorodok
    Tarnogsky Gorodok
    Tarnogsky Gorodok is a rural locality and the administrative center of Tarnogsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kokshenga River, at the confluence with the Tarnoga River. It also serves as the administrative center of Tarnogsky Selsoviet, one of the thirteen...

    ), Kubeno-Ozyorsky (Kubenskoye), Ledengsky
    Babushkinsky District, Vologda Oblast
    Babushkinsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Babushkinsky Municipal District...

     (Ledengskoye
    Imeni Babushkina
    Imeni Babushkina , formerly Ledengskoye is a rural locality and the administrative center of Babushkinsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Ledenga River. It also serves as the administrative center of Babushkinsky Selsoviet, one of the fifteen selsoviets into which...

    ), Shuysky
    Mezhdurechensky District, Vologda Oblast
    Mezhdurechensky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Mezhdurechensky Municipal District...

     (Svyatogorye), Sverdlovsky
    Sokolsky District, Vologda Oblast
    Sokolsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Sokolsky Municipal District...

     (Sokol
    Sokol, Vologda Oblast
    Sokol is a town in the center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located at both banks of the Sukhona. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . It also serves as the administrative center of Sokolsky District, by which it is completely surrounded but is not administratively...

    ), Syamzhensky
    Syamzhensky District
    Syamzhensky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Syamzhensky Municipal District...

     (Yarygino), Tolshmensky (Ust-Tolshma), Totemsky
    Totemsky District
    Totemsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Totemsky Municipal District...

     (Totma
    Totma
    Totma is a town and the administrative center of Totemsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia,, located on the left bank of the Sukhona River at the confluence with the Pesya Denga River. Municipally, it is incorporated as Totemskoe Urban Settlement in Totemsky Municipal District. Population:...

    ), Ust-Kubensky (Ustye), Vologodsky
    Vologodsky District
    Vologodsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Vologodsky Municipal District...

     (Vologda
    Vologda
    Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...

    ), Vozhegodsky
    Vozhegodsky District
    Vozhegodsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Vozhegodsky Municipal District...

     (settlement at the Vozhega
    Vozhega
    Vozhega and the administrative center of Vozhegodsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It also serves as the administrative center of Vozhegodsky Selsoviet, although it is not part of it. Municipally, it is incorporated as Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, the only urban settlement in the...

     railway station).
  • In the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast: Izhmo-Pechorsky (Izhma
    Izhma
    Izhma may refer to:*Izhma, Komi Republic, a rural locality in the Komi Republic, Russia*Izhma, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a rural locality in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia*Izhma Airport, an airport in the Komi Republic, Russia...

    ), Priluzsky
    Priluzsky District
    Priluzsky District is an administrative district , one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Priluzsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Obyachevo. District's population: Population of Obyachevo accounts for 23.6% of...

     (Obyachevo), Storozhevsky (Storozhevsk), Sysolsky
    Sysolsky District
    Sysolsky District is an administrative district , one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Sysolsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Vizinga. District's population: Population of Vizinga accounts for 42.3% of the...

     (Vizinga), Udorsky (Koslanskoe), Ust-Kulomsky
    Ust-Kulomsky District
    Ust-Kulomsky District is an administrative district , one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Ust-Kulomsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Ust-Kulom. District's population: Population of Ust-Kulom accounts for...

     (Ust-Kulom), Ust-Sysolsky (Ust-Sysolsk
    Syktyvkar
    -Twin towns/sister cities:Syktyvkar is twinned with the following sister cities: Cullera, Spain Debrecen, Hungary Los Altos, United States Lovech, Bulgaria Taiyuan, China-External links:* * * *...

    ), Ust-Tsylemsky
    Ust-Tsilemsky District
    Ust-Tsilemsky District is an administrative district , one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Ust-Tsilemsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Ust-Tsilma...

     (Ust-Tsylma), Ust-Vymsky
    Ust-Vymsky District
    Ust-Vymsky District is an administrative district , one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Ust-Vymsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Aykino. District's population: Population of Aykino accounts for 10.4% of the...

     (Ustvymskoye).


In July 1930, the Okrugs have been abolished. The Nenets Okrug became the autonomous unit, the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast remained intact, and the districts which were part of the four other Okrugs became directly subordinate to the Krai goventment. By August 25, 1930 the Krai consisted of
  • Cities of Arkhangelsk and Vologda;
  • Nenets National District (consisting of Bolshezemelsky, Kanino-Timansky, and Pustozersky districts);
  • Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast (Izhemsky
    Izhemsky District
    Izhemsky District is an administrative district , one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Izhemsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Izhma...

    , Priluzsky, Storozhevsky, Syktyvkarsky, Sysolsky, Troitsko-Pechorsky
    Troitsko-Pechorsky District
    Troitsko-Pechorsky District is an administrative district , one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Troitsko-Pechorsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Troitsko-Pechorsk...

    , Udorsky, Ust-Kulomsky, Ust-Usinsky, Ust-Tsylemsky, and Ust-Vymsky districts);
  • Fifty districts of central subordination: Bereznikovsky, Chekuyevsky, Cherevkovsky, Chyobsarsky, Gryazovetsky, Kargopolsky, Karpogorsky, Kharovsky, Kholmogorsky, Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky, Kokshengsky, Konoshsky, Kotlassky, Krasnoborsky, Kubeno-Ozersky, Lalsky, Ledengsky, Lensky, Leshukonsky, Mezensky, Nikolsky, Nyuksensky
    Nyuksensky District
    Nyuksensky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Nyuksensky Municipal District...

    , Nyandomsky, Onezhsky, Oparinsky, Pinezhsky, Plesetsky, Podosinovsky, Primorsky, Priozyorny, Rovdinsky, Roslyatinsky, Shenkursky, Shuysky, Sukhonsky, Sverdlovsky, Syamzhensky, Tolshmensky, Totemsky, Ust-Kubinsky, Ustyansky, Velikoustyuzhsky, Velsky, Verkhnetoyemsky, Verkhovazhsky, Vilegodsky, Vologodsky, Vokhomsky, Vozhegodsky, Yemetsky;
  • Islands in the Arctic Ocean and Solovetsky Islands.


Between 1930 and 1935 there were constant changes in the district configuration, some districts were abolished, established, and renamed. On February 10, 1934, Novaya Zemlya, Vaygach, and a number of smaller islands in the Barents
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of Norway and Russia. Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents...

 and Kara
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....

 Seas were moved to the Nenets National Okrug. By 1936, the Krai included 65 districts.

On March 5, 1936, Pechorsky Okrug which was a part of the Northern Krai was established. The Okrug included three districts, Izhemsky, Ust-Tsilemsky, and Ust-Usinsky, and a part of Troitsko-Pechorsky District. This was related due to the beginning of the coal mining
Coal mining
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...

 in the North of what is now the Komi Republic
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic is a federal subject of Russia .-Geography:The republic is situated to the west of the Ural mountains, in the north-east of the East European Plain...

.

According to the 1936 Soviet Constitution
1936 Soviet Constitution
The 1936 Soviet constitution, adopted on December 5, 1936, and also known as the "Stalin" constitution, redesigned the government of the Soviet Union.- Basic provisions :...

, the Northern Krai was abolished, and its territory was divided between newly established Northern Oblast and Komi Republic
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic is a federal subject of Russia .-Geography:The republic is situated to the west of the Ural mountains, in the north-east of the East European Plain...

. The Northern Oblast included 54 districts and was in 1937 split into Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea....

 and Vologda
Vologda Oblast
Vologda Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is Vologda. The largest city is Cherepovets.Vologda Oblast is rich in historic monuments, such as the magnificent Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Ferapontov Convent , medieval towns of Velikiy Ustyug and Belozersk, baroque...

 Oblasts. Three of the districts of the Northern Krai, Lalsky, Oparinsky, and Podosinovsky, as the result of some later administrative changes, ended up in Kirov Oblast
Kirov Oblast
Kirov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. Population: -History:In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Vyatka remained a place of exile for opponents of the tsarist regime, including many prominent revolutionary figures.In 1920, a number of...

. Pavinsky and Vokhomsky District were merged into Kostroma Oblast
Kostroma Oblast
Kostroma Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kostroma.Major historic towns include Kostroma, Sharya, Nerekhta, Galich, Soligalich, and Makaryev. Textile industries have been developed there since the early 18th century...

.
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