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Russian register of administrative divisions

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**Russian Classification on Objects of Administrative Division**[1] ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Общеросси́йский классифика́тор объе́ктов администрати́вно-территориа́льного деле́ния), or **OKATO** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): ОКАТО), also called **All-Russian classification on units of administrative and territorial distribution** in English,[2] is one of several [Russian](/source/Russia) national registers. OKATO's purpose is organization of information about structure of the administrative divisions of the [federal subjects of Russia](/source/Federal_subjects_of_Russia).

The document assigns numeric codes to each administrative division of the country, which are hierarchically structured from the [federal subject](/source/Federal_subjects_of_Russia) level down to [selsoviet](/source/Selsoviet) level; an expanded version also includes listings of individual [inhabited localities](/source/Classification_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia) 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](/source/Federal_State_Statistics_Service) of Russia (*Rosstat*).

## See also

- [Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China](/source/Administrative_division_codes_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China) ([zh:中华人民共和国行政区划代码](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD%E8%A1%8C%E6%94%BF%E5%8C%BA%E5%88%92%E4%BB%A3%E7%A0%81)), a somewhat similar system used in the [PRC](/source/PRC) (only down to the [county](/source/Counties_of_China) level).[3]

- [OKTMO](/source/OKTMO), Russian Classification on Territories of Municipal Division

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-self_1-0)** The English name of the document is given per the English title included on the document's first page.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-UN_2-0)** [*Country Report of the Russian Federation*](http://www.unescap.org/stat/cos12/cos12_russian_class.pdf) submitted to the 12th session of the [UN](/source/United_Nations) [ESCAP](/source/United_Nations_Economic_and_Social_Commission_for_Asia_and_the_Pacific) Committee on Statistics (pdf) (in English)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Liu Lian'an, [Codes for the Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China: Brief Introduction](http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/25th-gegn-docs/wp%2520papers/wp45-item10-china.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303092752/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/25th-gegn-docs/wp%20papers/wp45-item10-china.pdf) 2016-03-03 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

## External links

[Wikidata](/source/Wikidata) has the property:

- ***[OKATO ID (P721)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P721)*** (see [uses](https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3FWikidata_item_%20%3FWikidata_item_Label%20%3Fvalue%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FEnglish_Wikipedia_article%20%23Show%20data%20in%20this%20order%0A%7B%0A%09%3FWikidata_item_%20wdt%3AP721%20%3Fvalue%20.%20%23Collecting%20all%20items%20which%20have%20P721%20data%2C%20from%20whole%20Wikidata%20item%20pages%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3FEnglish_Wikipedia_article%20schema%3Aabout%20%3FWikidata_item_%3B%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%7D%20%23If%20collected%20item%20has%20link%20to%20English%20Wikipedia%2C%20show%20that%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%23Show%20label%20in%20this%20language.%20%22en%22%20is%20English.%20%20%20%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%201000))

- Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике. Комитет Российской Федерации по стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации. №ОК 019-95 1 января 1997 г. «[Общероссийский классификатор объектов административно-территориального деления](http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=107426)», в ред. изменения №278/2015 от 1 января 2016 г.. (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 *[Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO)](http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=107426)*, as amended by the Amendment #278/2015 of January 1, 2016. ).

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