Russian Classification on Objects of Administrative DivisionThe English name of the document is given per the English title included on the document's first page. (), or OKATO (), also called All-Russian classification on units of administrative and territorial distribution in English,''Country Report of the Russian Federation''
submitted to the 12th session of the UN ESCAP Committee on Statistics (pdf) is one of several

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

n national registers. OKATO's purpose is organization of information about structure of the administrative divisions of the

federal subjects of Russia The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation () or simply as the subjects of the federation (), are the administrative division, constituent entities of Russia, its top-level political division ...

. The document assigns numeric codes to each administrative division of the country, which are hierarchically structured from the

federal subject The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation () or simply as the subjects of the federation (), are the administrative division, constituent entities of Russia, its top-level political division ...

level down to

selsoviet A selsoviet (; , ; ) is the shortened name for Selsky soviet, i.e., rural council (; ; ). It has three closely related meanings: *The administration (''soviet (council), soviet'') of a certain rural area. *The territorial subdivision administered ...

level; an expanded version also includes listings of individual

inhabited localities Inhabit means to live in, reside in, occupy or populate some place – a so-called habitat. Inhabit may also refer to: * ''Inhabit'' (album), an album by Living Sacrifice * Inhabited (band), a rock group See also * Circumstellar habitable zone ...

within each administrative division. OKATO is used for statistical and tax purposes. It was adopted on July 31, 1995, replacing SOATO (''Designation System of Objects of Administrative Division of the Union of SSR and the Union Republics, as well as Inhabited Localities''). It went into effect on January 1, 1997 and as of 2014 underwent 243 revisions. The compilation and maintenance of the OKATO data are the responsibility of the

Federal State Statistics Service The Federal State Statistics Service (, abbreviated as Rosstat) is the governmental statistics agency in Russia. Since 2017, it is again part of the Ministry of Economic Development, having switched several times in the previous decades betw ...

of Russia (''Rosstat'').

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*{{OKATO reference Political divisions of Russia Geocodes