The Khortytskyi District ( uk, Хортицький район, ) is one of seven administrative
urban districts (raions) of the city of
Zaporizhzhia, located in southern
Ukraine. Its population was 122,575 in the
2001 Ukrainian Census
The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989. ,
and 117,871 .
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Geography
It is named after the nearby Khortytsia island, a national cultural reserve. The raion is located in the southern portion of the city, on the right-bank of the Dnipro River
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...
, neighboring the villages of Baburka
Baburka ( uk, Бабурка) is a village (a '' selo'') in the Zaporizhzhia Raion (district) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its population was 362 in the 2001 Ukrainian Census.
History
The settlement was first founded in 1785 as Bu ...
and Novoslobidka
Novoslobidka ( uk, Новослобідка; literally, New Sloboda) is a village (a '' selo'') in the Zaporizhzhia Raion (district) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its population was 548 in the 2001 Ukrainian Census.
The settlement ...
in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[
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History
The territory of the Khortytskyi District was first inhabited by German-speaking Mennonites settling the Chortitza Colony
Chortitza Colony was a volost Yekaterinoslav Governorate granted to Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonite for colonization northwest of Khortytsia Island and is now part of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Chortitza was founded in 1789 by Mennonite set ...
in the late 18th century. By the 1960s, the first residential neighborhoods were being constructed in the vicinity, which at the time administratively belonged to the city's Leninskyi District.[
On 19 January 1995, the Khortytskyi District was established out of a portion of the Leninskyi District by a decree of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament.]
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Urban districts of Zaporizhzhia
States and territories established in 1995
1995 establishments in Ukraine
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