Katerynopil Raion ( uk, Катеринопільський район) was a
raion
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 (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
(district) of
Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkasy Oblast ( uk, Черка́ська о́бласть, Cherkaska oblast, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna ( uk, Черка́щина, ) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The administrative center ...
in central
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. Its administrative center was located at the
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
of
Katerynopil
Katerynopil ( uk, Катеринопіль) is an urban-type settlement located in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (oblast, province) in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Katerynopil settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukr ...
. The raion covered an area of . The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four. The area of Chornobai Raion was merged into
Zvenyhorodka Raion
Zvenyhorodka Raion is a raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at the city of Zvenyhorodka. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions ...
. The last estimate of the raion population was
At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three
hromadas:
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Katerynopil settlement hromada with the administration in Katerynopil;
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Mokra Kalyhirka rural hromada with the administration in the
selo of
Mokra Kalyhirka;
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Yerky settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of
Yerky.
People from Katerynopil Raion
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Semen Hryzlo (1887), Ukrainian military and civil activist, organizer of the
Free Cossacks.
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Viacheslav Chornovil
Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil ( uk, В'ячесла́в Макси́мович Чорнові́л; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, ...
, Ukrainian politician, earlier a prominent Ukrainian dissident to the
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
policies
References
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Former raions of Cherkasy Oblast
Mining cities and regions in Ukraine
1923 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform