 The krai consisted of the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast, a number of islands in the Arctic Ocean, as well as five administrative districts ("okrugs"),
All these okrugs (except for the Nenets Okrug) were divided into districts.In 1930, the okrugs were abolished, and the districts became directly subordinate to Northern Krai.In 1936, according to the new Soviet Constitution, the Northern Krai was transformed into Northern Oblast.