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There were 490 raions in 24 oblasts and the Crimea autonomous republic of Ukraine. The number of raions per region (oblast and autonomous republic) varies between 11 and over 20. The average area of a Ukrainian raion before the reform was 1,200 km 2 (463 sq mi). The average population was 52,000.
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.
The Church of the Holy Spirit (built in the 1750s) In the 19th century, the " Apostolus Christinopolitanus " and famous chronicle from 1763 to 1779 were kept in the city. The Catholic order of Myrrh-Bearing Sisters was founded by Fr. Yulian Datsii in 1910, with the purpose of gathering funds to build a home for orphans and the poor.
The official names of populated places in the country are determined through legislation passed by the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, often at the request of local authorities. During the last years prior to and in the initial decades after independence, derussification was not actively pursued and primarily resulted from the gradual ...
Scripps News' Jason Bellini met Larysa Borysenko, leading a group of mostly women and their dogs who have found about 400 victims of Russian attacks. Meet the brave woman leading search dogs in ...
Yahidne (Ukrainian: Ягідне) is a rural settlement in eastern Ukraine, located in the center of Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast. In 2001, it had a population of 318. [ 1 ] It is located on one side of a hill, on the other side of which is the village of Berkhivka .
Dogxim, or Graxorra in Portuguese, was a female canid hybrid between a Pampas fox and a domesticated dog that was discovered in Brazil in 2021. [1] The canid showed a mixture of fox and dog behaviours, [2] and a team of geneticists led by Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas and Rafael Kretschmer announced in 2023 that she was a distinct hybrid genetically that "represents the first documented ...
Bessarabske settlement hromada (Ukrainian: Бессарабське селищна громада) is a hromada in Bolhrad Raion of Odesa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. Population: 22,553 (2020 est.) [1] [2] The hromada consists of three rural settlement (Bessarabske, Serpneve, Soborne) and 13 villages: [3]