{{Short description|Russian register of administrative divisions}} {{Expand Russian|topic=geo|Общероссийский_классификатор_объектов_административно-территориального_деления|date=April 2026}} '''Russian Classification on Objects of Administrative Division'''<ref name="self">The English name of the document is given per the English title included on the document's first page.</ref> ({{langx|ru|Общеросси́йский классифика́тор объе́ктов администрати́вно-территориа́льного деле́ния}}), or '''OKATO''' ({{langx|ru|ОКАТО}}), also called '''All-Russian classification on units of administrative and territorial distribution''' in English,<ref name="UN">[http://www.unescap.org/stat/cos12/cos12_russian_class.pdf ''Country Report of the Russian Federation''] submitted to the 12th session of the [[United Nations|UN]] [[United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific|ESCAP]] Committee on Statistics (pdf) {{in lang|en}}</ref> is one of several [[Russia]]n national registers. OKATO's purpose is organization of information about structure of the administrative divisions of the [[federal subjects of Russia]].
The document assigns numeric codes to each administrative division of the country, which are hierarchically structured from the [[federal subjects of Russia|federal subject]] level down to [[selsoviet]] level; an expanded version also includes listings of individual [[Classification of inhabited localities in Russia|inhabited localities]] 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]] of Russia (''Rosstat'').
==See also== *[[Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China]] ([[:zh:中华人民共和国行政区划代码]]), a somewhat similar system used in the [[PRC]] (only down to the [[Counties of China|county]] level).<ref>Liu Lian'an, [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/25th-gegn-docs/wp%2520papers/wp45-item10-china.pdf Codes for the Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China: Brief Introduction] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303092752/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/25th-gegn-docs/wp%20papers/wp45-item10-china.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref> *[[OKTMO]], Russian Classification on Territories of Municipal Division
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Wikidata property|P721}} *{{OKATO reference}}
[[Category:Political divisions of Russia]] [[Category:Geocodes]]