Poltava Raion
Poltava Raion
Полтавський район | |
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Coat of arms of Poltava Raion Coat of arms | |
| File:Poltavskiy rayon 2020.svg | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine |
| Oblast | File:Flag of Poltava Oblast.svg Poltava |
| Established | March 7, 1923 |
| Admin. center | Poltava |
| Subdivisions | 24 hromadas |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Lidia Lepeyko |
| Area | |
• Total | 10,844.2 km2 (4,187.0 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 582,391 |
| • Density | 53.7053/km2 (139.096/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal index | 38701—38786 |
| Area code | +380-5322 |
| Website | Official homepage |
Poltava Raion (Ukrainian: Полтавський район, romanized: Poltavs'kyi raion) is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Poltava. Population: 582,391 (2022 estimate).[1]
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Poltava Raion was significantly expanded. [2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 68,174 (2020 est.).[4]
Administrative division
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[edit | edit source]After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 24 hromadas:[3]
- Bilyky settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Bilyky, transferred from Kobeliaky Raion;[5]
- Chutove settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Chutove, transferred from Chutove Raion;[6]
- Drabynivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Drabynivka, transferred from Novi Sanzhary Raion
- Dykanka settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Dykanka, transferred from Dykanka Raion;[7]
- Karlivka urban hromada with the administration in the city of Karlivka, transferred from Karlivka Raion;[8]
- Kobeliaky urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kobeliaky, transferred from Kobeliaky Raion;[5]
- Kolomatske rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Kolomatske, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Kotelva settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Kotelva, transferred from Kotelva Raion;[9]
- Lanna rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Lanna, transferred from Karlivka Raion;[8]
- Machukhy rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Machukhy, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Martynivka rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Martynivka, transferred from Karlivka Raion;[8]
- Mashivka settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Mashivka, transferred from Mashivka Raion;[10]
- Mykhailivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Mykhailivka, transferred from Mashivka Raion;[10]
- Novoselivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Novoselivka, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Poltava urban hromada with the administration in the city of Poltava, transferred from city of the oblast significance of Poltava and retained from Poltava Raion;[11]
- Shcherbani rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Shcherbani, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Skorokhodove settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Skorokhodove, transferred from Chutove Raion;[6]
- Tereshky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Tereshky, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Velyka Rublivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Velyka Rublivka, transferred from Kotelva Raion.[9]
Before 2020
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Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of five hromadas,[12]
- Kolomatske rural hromada with the administration in Kolomatske, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Machukhy rural hromada with the administration in Machukhy, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Novoselivka rural hromada with the administration in Novoselivka, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Shcherbani rural hromada with the administration in Shcherbani, retained from Poltava Raion;
- Tereshky rural hromada with the administration in Tereshky, retained from Poltava Raion.
Geography
[edit | edit source]The district is located in the eastern part of Poltava region, on the Dnieper Lowland, on the left bank of the Dnieper Valley. [13]The relief of the district is an undulating plain, cut by river valleys, ravines, and gullies.[14]
The climate of the district is temperate continental. The average temperature in January is −3.7 °C, in July it is +21.4 °C, the amount of precipitation is 480–580 mm/year, which falls mainly in the summer as rain.[15][14]
The landscapes are represented by forest-steppe.[14] Chernozems dominate the territory of the district.[16]
The Vorskla, Orchyk, and Psel rivers, left tributaries of the Dnieper, flow through the district. The river in the floodplain has many oxbow lakes and artificial lakes.[17][13]
Poltava Raion has reserves of clay, sapropel, bischofite, natural gas, potassium-magnesium salt. The district is located in the Eastern oil and gas region of Ukraine [18] In the Potava district, the bischofite deposits are the deepest in the world, mined from a depth of 2.5 km.[19]
The regional landscape parks "Dykansky" and "Nyzhnevorsk" are located in the Poltava region.[20]
References
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Sources
[edit | edit source]- Національний атлас України/НАН України, Інститут географії, Державна служба геодезії, картографії та кадастру; голов. ред. Л. Г. Руденко; голова ред. кол.Б.Є. Патон. — К.: ДНВП «Картографія», 2007. — 435 с. — 5 тис.прим. — ISBN 978-966-475-067-4.
- Географічна енциклопедія України : [у 3 т.] / редкол.: О. М. Маринич (відповід. ред.) та ін. — К., 1989—1993. — 33 000 екз. — ISBN 5-88500-015-8.
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