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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. The city municipalities of regional (oblast) significance (abbr. MOZ) had an independent of raion jurisdiction. The number of such ...
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.
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.
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]
The raion was created as Chervonohrad Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Two abolished raions, Radekhiv and Sokal Raions , as well as Chervonohrad Municipality and part of Kamianka-Buzka Raion , were merged into the new raion.
KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) - As a Ukrainian rocket made its way towards the Russian radar system, the soldiers in the elite unit whose drone had discovered the target waited with bated breath.
The village is located at the junction of three regions of Ukraine – Kyiv Oblast, Poltava Oblast and Cherkasy Oblast on the altitude of 125 metres (410 ft) above sea level. It is located at a distance of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the highway in European route E40 E40 connecting Kyiv with Kharkiv .
Russia has bombed or fired missiles at Mykolaiv, Ukraine on all but a few dozen days — a frequency unparalleled in any other Ukrainian city. Former powerlifter Anna Kurkurina has never left ...