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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.
Folk art of Ukraine is a layer of Ukrainian culture associated with the creation of the worldview of the Ukrainian people, its psychology, ethical guidelines, and aesthetic aspirations, covering all types of folk art, traditionally inherent in Ukraine: music, dance, songs, decorative and applied arts, developing as a single complex, and organically included in the life of the people throughout ...
Raions (Ukrainian: район; pl. райони) are smaller territorial units of subdivision in Ukraine. There are 136 raions. [12] Following the December 2019 draft constitutional changes submitted to the Verkhovna Rada by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 136 new raions have replaced the former 490 raions of Ukraine. [13]
The dragon is a common motif in heraldry, and the coat of arms of a number of cities or families depict dragons. The Dragon Bridge (Slovene: Zmajski most) in Ljubljana, Slovenia depicts dragons associated with the city or said to be the city's guardians, [83] and the city's coat of arms features a dragon (representing the one slain by Kresnik ...
A partial list of notable artists born or active in Ukraine, arranged chronologically with artists born in the same year arranged alphabetically within that year. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Until the raion was abolished on 18 July 2020, [3] [4] Petrykivka was the administrative center of Petrykivka Raion. After that date the village became part of Dnipro Raion. Until 26 January 2024, Petrykivka was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Petrykivka became a rural ...
Depiction of an engraved mammoth ivory bracelet from Mezine on a Ukrainian coin. On Mezine and other sites at Yeliseevici and Timovka, Joseph Campbell comments: It is impossible not to feel, when reviewing the material of these mammoth-hunting stations on the loess plains north of the Black and Caspian Seas, that we are in a province fundamentally different in style and mythology from that of ...