Talk:Populated places in Ukraine

Urban-type settlement

A question concerning this line in the article:

"According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there are 890 urban settlements in Ukraine and only 783 settlement councils."

Does this mean that unlike cities (in the territorial/locality definition of a settlement), not all designated urban-type settlements have an associated settlement councils? BTW, this would be a huge project, but for anyone working on Ukrainian settlement pages, whenever you have to go to one to edit it, can someone make clear on that settlement's page when we're talking about territorial localities (cities, urban-type settlements, etc...) as opposed to actual local governments? I've noticed a lot of the time going to pages particularly of smaller settlements and being confused as to whether we're just talking about a settlement that's within the boundaries of a larger local government (cities of district or oblast/regional significance) and has no associated local government of its own, or talking about an associated local government within a rural district/raion. This is particularly the case when a settlement is simply labeled an "urban-type settlement" and it's not made clear whether it's an local government urban-type settlement or simply a territorial definition of an urban-type settlement. Does this make any sense? --Criticalthinker (talk) 15:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Criticalthinker, your reasoning is correct. And it does make sense! But as it stands, I would say the majority of articles on Ukrainian administrative units/subdivisions do not currently state what the political/administrative status is of the populated settlement in question (except for articles on the administrative centers of first-level Ukrainian administrative units, and the recent articles that I have been creating myself).

I'm trying my best to have them be as in-depth as possible in regards to their status, but I've only covered around a 100 or so out of 30–40,000 articles.. § DDima 04:06, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DDima, thank you for the answer and I'm thankful for the work you are doing. One further quesion that relates to this, though. On the article "List of urban-type settlements in Ukraine by subdivision" are those listings of urban-type settlements as units of local government, as territorial divisions/designation, or both? Could this be clarified on that page? --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:06, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just looking back over this page, and had a slightly related question. As populated places go, the definitions give for villages and rural settlements still seems a bit vague, I imagine that's because it is. That said, is there a way to make it slightly less vague? For instance, is it that villages are usually found in more rural areas where as a rural settlement is more likely to be found outside the conurbation of a city settlement? Which of these rural populated places is on average larger of the two, village or rural settlement? --Criticalthinker (talk) 20:17, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Talk:Odessa § Requested move 11 July 2022

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Odessa § Requested move 11 July 2022. Rei (talk) 00:29, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Selyshche

Someone has to go all over Ukrainian geography and introduce the term selyshche. Because is sounds really stupid: a "settlement with population over 5,000 is called settlement". - Altenmann >talk 03:31, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New section: 2024 law

I added the section "2024 law" on top, because it has the priority and the article must be updated according to it, lede, and the rest. - Altenmann >talk 05:57, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I used the term "farmstead-type residences" to translate "садибною забудовою" in the rendering of the law. I am not sure what would be English equivalent for a typical East-European village which consists of farmhouses surrounded by small plots of land and various sheds. I am not sure this would be good English term.

Heck, now I realize that we have no article to describe these East-Central European settlements. They certainly look very different from what is called "village" in Italy or Village (United States). I live in West San Jose, California, and when I moved there very long time ago, I said myself that with fences and 75% of cars lining up the streets removed, this district of wooden houses will look pretty much like a Lithuanian village.:-) 16:51, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Rural settlements in 2001 census

The article says "According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there are 1,266 rural settlements". Please clarify the meaning of "rural settlement" at that time. (villages+selysches+khutirs or what?) - Altenmann >talk 17:12, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]