Populated places in Ukraine
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In Ukraine, a
All populated places are governed by their municipality (
Beside regular populated places in Ukraine that are part of administrative division and population census, there are several additional categories for populated places that are used for other purposes. Among such categories are mountainous populated places, historic populated places, and others.
The 2015
Cities
City with special status is treated as a city-region. Most cities in Ukraine are the centres of the corresponding municipality (hromada). Only 8 cities (Stebnyk, Sosnivka, Uhniv, Ukrainsk, Bilytske, Rodynske and Hirnyk, Donetsk Oblast) are not centres of the municipality. Two cities (Chernobyl and Pripyat) are abandoned and are governed by the State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management.
City status a populated place receives on a decision of the
Cities that have population of less than 50,000 are considered to be small cities and fall under a special state program in development of small cities.[6]
According to the
Rural populated places
Rural populated places (Ukrainian: сільські населені пункти) or rural localities[7] can refer to two different types of inhabited places: villages and rural settlements.
Rural settlements
The term selyshche (селище, "settlement") used to have a double meaning in the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine. It was used either for urban-type settlements or for some smaller populated places which are often part of a rural hromada. Unlike other nomenclatures for populated places, in the Constitution of Ukraine a term like urban-type settlement was not defined and was part of the Soviet legislature that was conditionally grandfathered. In 2023 a law was passed to finally eliminate any deviations or variations of the term selyshche clearly categorizing them as rural type of populated place along with villages. The law also merged the two categories that de facto existed in Ukraine.
According to the 2023 law "About the order to solve separate issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine", a selyshche is identified as a populated place with predominantly a private housing total population of which is no less than 5,000 people.[8]
According to the
Villages
Village as a term became systematic for a conventional rural populated place and most numerous out of all terms used for populated places in a country. A rural hromada may be composed of a single village or group of villages. According to the
According to the 2023 law "About the order to solve separate issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine", a village identified as a populated place with predominantly a private housing total population of which is less than 5,000 people.
Other populated places
In 1995 there was created a special category for mountainous populated places in Ukraine. Mountainous status is received by populated places located in mountainous area, have inadequately developed sphere of employment and social services as well as a limited transportation access (low development density of infrastructure or infrastructure is weak).
Historic types of populated places
Among historic types of populated places in Ukraine are places like
Ukrainian khutirs were destroyed in 1930s-1940s during the Soviet occupation as part of the fight with individual farming (dekulakization campaign).[9]
See also
- Geography of Ukraine
- ISO 3166-2:UA
- List of places named after people (Ukraine)
- The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR, a comprehensive encyclopedic compilation of all populated places
References
- ^ Populated place (Населений пункт). The Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia.
- ^ (Лист-роз’яснення Міністерства юстиції України від 27.01.2016 № 27/13/32-16 «Щодо права на вчинення нотаріальних дій посадовими особами органу місцевого самоврядування в населених пунктах, які мають статус селищ міського типу у зв’язку із внесенням змін до статті 37 Закону України «Про нотаріат»). Ministry of Justice. 27 January 2016
- Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015(14 April 2015)
Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News - ^ "Geographical names associated with Russia have been banned in Ukraine". Lb.ua (in Ukrainian). 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ "Geographical names associated with Russia have been banned in Ukraine". Lb.ua (in Ukrainian). 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ Law of Ukraine: "On Approval of the National Program for Development of Small Cities". March 4, 2004.
- ^ "Number of administrative-territory divisions". Population of Ukraine. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ The text of the law No. 8263
- ^ Types of rural settlements. disted.edu.vn.ua (in Ukrainian)
External links
- On the procedure for resolving certain issues of the administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine Law of Ukraine 3285-IX (current)
- About order for solution of issues on the administrative-territorial system of the Ukrainian SSR. Ukase of Ukrainian SSR. N 1654-X. 1981-03-12. (former)
- About the status of mountainous populated places in Ukraine. Law of Ukraine. N 56/95-VR. 1995-02-15. (current)
- Androshchuk, O. Urban settlements in a system of territorial setting in the Ukrainian SSR in 40s-60s of the 20th century[permanent dead link]. "Krayeznavstvo". 2006.