Kupiansk Raion
Kupiansk Raion
Куп'янський район | |
|---|---|
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Raion location in Kharkiv Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 49°40′35.85″N 37°41′10.5612″E / 49.6766250°N 37.686267000°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Kharkiv Oblast |
| Admin. center | Kupiansk |
| Subdivisions | 8 hromadas |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,612.9 km2 (1,781.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | |
• Total | 130,111 |
| • Density | 28/km2 (73/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | http://kupyansk-rayon.osp-ua.info/ |
Kupiansk Raion (Ukrainian: Куп'янський район) is a raion (district) in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Kupiansk. Population: 130,111 (2022 estimate).[2]
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Kupiansk Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Dvorichna, Shevchenkove, and Velykyi Burluk Raions, as well as the city of Kupiansk, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kupiansk Raion.[3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 23,180 (2020 est.).[5]
It is approximately 120 kilometers to the east of Kharkiv and 40 kilometers south of the border with Russia.
Settlements
[edit]Subdivisions
[edit]Current
[edit]After the reform in July 2020, the raion consists of 8 hromadas:[4]
- Dvorichna settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Dvorichna, transferred from Dvorichna Raion;[6]
- Kindrashivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Kindrashivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion;
- Kupiansk urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kupiansk, transferred from Kupiansk Municipality;[7]
- Kurylivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Kurylivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion;
- Petropavlivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Petropavlivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion;
- Shevchenkove settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Shevchenkove, transferred from Shevchenkove Raion;[8]
- Velykyi Burluk settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Velykyi Burluk, transferred from Velykyi Burluk Raion;[9]
- Vilkhuvatka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Vilkhuvatka, transferred from Velykyi Burluk Raion.[9]
Before 2020
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Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas:[10]
- Kindrashivka rural hromada with the administration in Kindrashivka;
- Kurylivka rural hromada with the administration in Kurylivka;
- Petropavlivka rural hromada with the administration in Petropavlivka.
Notable people
[edit]- Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiologist
- Vladimir Dudintsev, Ukrainian-born Russian writer
References
[edit]- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ a b "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Дворічанська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ "Купянская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ "Шевченківська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ a b "Великобурлуцька районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ "Синельниківська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
External links
[edit]- Kupensky Youth Network (in English)