A raion ( Ukrainian : район , romanized : raion ; pl. райони , raiony ), often translated as district , is the second-level administrative division in Ukraine . Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union , to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , belonged.
5-553: Zvenyhorodka Raion is a raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast , in central Ukraine . Its administrative centre is the city of Zvenyhorodka . Population: 193,804 (2022 estimate). On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Zvenyhorodka Raion was significantly expanded. Four abolished raions, Katerynopil , Lysianka , Shpola , and Talne Raions , parts of two more abolished raions, Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi and Horodyshche Raions , as well as
10-616: The Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) approved an administrative reform to merge most of the 490 raions, along with the " cities of regional significance ", which were previously outside the raions, into just 136 reformed raions. Most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare) were taken over by new hromadas , the subdivisions of raions. The 136 new districts include ten in Crimea, which have been de facto outside Ukrainian control since
15-477: The city of Bahacheve , which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to any raion, were merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 42,176 (2020 est.). After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 17 hromadas : Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas: Raions of Ukraine On 17 July 2020,
20-544: The start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. Some cities of oblast significance, along with the two cities of national significance (Kyiv and Sevastopol ), are also divided in city raions , also called urban raions . City raions have their own local administration and are subordinated directly to a city. They may contain other cities, towns, and villages. On 17 July 2020, the number of raions in Ukraine
25-742: Was reduced to 136 (incl. 10 in Crimea) from the previous 490. Note: the Russian Republic of Crimea continues to use the same administrative divisions. Raions located in the occupied Donbas territories (see below in grey) are currently only de jure . Excluding the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In 2014, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. The populations in
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