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24-685: On 7 March 1923, the raion was originally created as Komyshuvakha Raion , with its administrative center in Komyshuvakha . It was subordinated to Bakhmut Okruha within Donets Governorate . In December 1924, the administrative center was moved to Popasna, and the raion was renamed to Popasna Raion accordingly. On 15 September 1930, all the okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic were abolished, so Popasna Raion became directly subordinated to

48-465: A country. A rural hromada may be composed of a single village or group of villages. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there were 27,190 villages in Ukraine that were organized into 10,278 rural (village) councils. According to the 2023 law "About the order to solve separate issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine", a village identified as a populated place with predominantly

72-525: A double meaning in the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine. It was used either for urban-type settlements or for some smaller populated places which are often part of a rural hromada . Unlike other nomenclatures for populated places, in the Constitution of Ukraine a term like urban-type settlement was not defined and was part of the Soviet legislature that was conditionally grandfathered. In 2023

96-480: A large portion of Donetsk Oblast, including Kahanovych Raion, was split off to create Voroshilovhrad Oblast (now Luhansk Oblast ) On 12 June 1944, Kahanovych Raion was renamed to Popasna Raion. On 30 December 1962, the raion was abolished again, and its territory transferred to Lysychansk Raion , which had its center in Lysychansk . On 30 December 1977, Lysychansk Raion was renamed to Popasna Raion, when its seat

120-404: A law was passed to finally eliminate any deviations or variations of the term selyshche clearly categorizing them as rural type of populated place along with villages. The law also merged the two categories that de facto existed in Ukraine. According to the 2023 law "About the order to solve separate issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine", a rural settlement ( selyshche )

144-592: A nominal administrative division for the next few years, despite not controlling Popasna. In 2022, during the battle of Popasna of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine , Popasna was completely destroyed by Russia and the LPR, who began an occupation of what remained of the city. In March 2023, legal documents of the Luhansk People's Republic - which by that point had been explicitly annexed by Russia - stopped using Popasna Raion as an administrative unit, due to

168-417: A private housing total population of which is less than 5,000 people. In 1995 there was created a special category for mountainous populated places in Ukraine. Mountainous status is received by populated places located in mountainous area, have inadequately developed sphere of employment and social services as well as a limited transportation access (low development density of infrastructure or infrastructure

192-684: Is a rural settlement in Sievierodonetsk Raion ( district ) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. Population: 1,958 (2022 estimate) Until 18 July 2020, Komyshuvakha was located in Popasna Raion . The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight, of which only four were controlled by the government. The area of Popasna Raion

216-480: Is identified as a populated place with predominantly a private housing total population of which is no less than 5,000 people. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there are 1,266 rural settlements in Ukraine (excluding urban-type settlements, which still existed at the time and some of which were reclassified as selyshche ). Village as a term became systematic for a conventional rural populated place and most numerous out of all terms used for populated places in

240-405: Is weak). Among historic types of populated places in Ukraine are places like khutir , prysilok, zymivnyk, mistechko , sloboda , horod . Collective and/or soviet farms used to be based either on an individual settlement (village) or include several neighboring rural settlements (villages, khutirs, slobodas). Ukrainian khutirs were destroyed in 1930s–1940s during the Soviet occupation as part of

264-827: The 2001 Ukrainian Census , there are 1,344 urban and 28,621 rural populated places in Ukraine. All populated places are governed by their hromada (municipality), may it be a village, a city or any settlement hromada. A municipality may consist of one or several populated places and is (except Kyiv and Sevastopol ) a constituent part of a raion (district) which in turn is constituents of an oblast (province). Beside regular populated places in Ukraine that are part of administrative division and population census, there are several additional categories for populated places that are used for other purposes. Among such categories are mountainous populated places, historic populated places, and others. The 2015 law on decommunization required populated places and toponymy related to Ukraine's past in

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288-655: The Soviet Union to be renamed. Leading to a string of new Ukrainian toponyms . On 21 March 2023, about a year following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent occupation of parts of Ukraine by Russia, the Ukrainian parliament adopted the law " On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy ", which is set to change

312-540: The Soviet era category of urban-type settlement ( селище міського типу , selyshche miskoho typu ) was abolished and conflated with the already existing category of rural settlement. City with special status is treated as a city-region. Most cities in Ukraine are the centres of the corresponding hromada . Two cities ( Chernobyl and Pripyat ) are abandoned and are governed by the State Agency of Ukraine on

336-614: The Ukrainian SSR . In February 1932, Popasna Raion was abolished, in connection with the establishment of the oblasts of Ukraine . The constituent local councils of Popasna Raion were divided between Artemivsk Raion and Kadiivka Raion . In June 1936, the raion was re-created as Kahanovych Raion within Donetsk Oblast , with its center in Popasna - which, at the time, was renamed after Lazar Kaganovich . On 3 June 1938,

360-796: The Exclusion Zone Management. City status a populated place receives on a decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine . Cities that have population of less than 50,000 are considered to be small cities and fall under a special state program in development of small cities. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there are 454 cities in Ukraine, among which two with special status ( Kyiv and Sevastopol ). Rural populated places ( Ukrainian : сільські населені пункти ) or rural localities can refer to two different types of inhabited places: villages and rural settlements. The term selyshche ( селище , "settlement") used to have

384-424: The Luhansk People's Republic were transferred to other administrative units as well. The Ukrainian raion was abolished for a third and final time on 18 July 2020 as part of the decentralizing administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight, of which only four were controlled by the government. The unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic continued to use Popasna Raion as

408-400: The administrative territorial system of Ukraine. The term selysche is also used to some smaller populated places, while can be found within other administrative territorial subdivisions. Those settlements are implicitly known as rural settlements, while often presented simply as selysches . According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there were 890 urban-type settlements in Ukraine. The designation

432-456: The extreme level of destruction of the city and its surroundings. As of the 2001 Ukrainian census , the population of Popasna Raion was 50,559. The self-reported ethnic distribution of the raion was: By 2013, the population had shrunk to 40,620. Of that number, 31,180 (76.76%) lived in urban areas, and 9,440 (23.24%) lived in rural areas. Komyshuvakha, Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast Komyshuvakha ( Ukrainian : Комишуваха )

456-432: The fight with individual farming ( dekulakization campaign). Urban-type settlements in Ukraine were a type of populated place in Ukraine from 1925 until 2024, deriving from a Soviet invented term for a populated place with some degree of urbanization or in proximity to an urbanized area. In the Constitution of Ukraine urban settlement is mentioned simply as selysche (a settlement), which also adds another ambiguity to

480-479: The localities in the government-controlled areas were grouped into districts. In particular, the urban-type settlement of Chornukhyne was transferred to Popasna Raion from Perevalsk Raion , the urban-type settlement of Novotoshkivske from Kirovsk Municipality , and the settlements Hirske , Zolote , Nyzhnie and Toshkivka from Pervomaisk Municipality . This resulted in the area of the raion increasing by 14,174 hectares. The part of Popasna Raion under control of

504-457: The names of places associated with Russian imperialism. In the law's explanatory note was stated this was "a ban on assigning geographic objects names that glorify, perpetuate, promote, or symbolize the occupying state." The Law of Ukraine of 28.07.2023 № 3285-IX "About the procedure for solving certain issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine" established the following terminology regarding populated places: In particular,

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528-596: The term "populated place" ( Ukrainian : населений пункт , romanized :  naselenyi punkt ) refers to a structured component of the human settlement system, representing a stationary community within a territorially cohesive and compact area characterized by a significant concentration of population. Its defining attribute is the continuous presence of human inhabitants. Populated places in Ukraine are classified into two primary categories: urban and rural. Urban populated places are cities, whereas rural areas include villages and rural settlements. According to data from

552-748: Was merged into Sievierodonetsk Raion. On June 15, 2022, the Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that the "last stage of the liberation of Kamyshevakhi from armed nationalist formations has been completed." Native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001 : This article about a location in Luhansk Oblast is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements In Ukraine,

576-584: Was moved from Lysychansk to Popasna. During the war in Donbas that began in 2014, the Ukrainian authorities lost control over parts of Popasna Raion to the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), an unrecognized, Russia-backed breakaway state . On 7 October 2014, to facilitate the governance of partially-occupied Luhansk Oblast, the Verkhovna Rada made some changes in its administrative divisions, so that

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