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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. [1] [nb 1]
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city . The word is from the French rayon (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), [ 1 ] and is commonly translated as ' district ' in English.
Manhush (Ukrainian: Мангуш) is an rural settlement in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It was the administrative seat of Manhush Raion, but is now administered under Mariupol Raion. The population is 7,731 (2022 estimate). [1] The town has been under Russian occupation since March 2022.
Koniushkiv (Ukrainian: Конюшків) is a village (selo) in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. It belongs to Brody urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [1] From 1918 to 1939 the village was in Tarnopol Voivodeship in Poland. Until 18 July 2020, Koniushkiv belonged to Brody Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 ...
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.
Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in ...
Borshchivka (Ukrainian: Борщівка; Russian: Борщовка) is a village in Izium Raion in Kharkiv Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about 71.1 kilometres (44.2 mi) south-east from the centre of Kharkiv city. The settlement came under attack by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. [2]