Pechenihy Raion () 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
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) in
Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast ( uk, Харківська́ о́бласть, translit=Kharkivska oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna ( uk, Ха́рківщина), is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhan ...
of
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
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
was 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
Pechenihy
Pechenihy ( uk, Печеніги, russian: Печенеги) is an urban-type settlement in Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Pechenihy Raion. It hosts the administration of Pechenihy settlement hro ...
. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast to seven. The last estimate of the raion population was .
After the reform in 2020 Pechenihy raion was substituted by Pechenihy settlement hromada (community) of approximately the same size, and as such it became a part of an enlarged
Chuhuiv Raion, with a total population of 202,200
At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of one
hromada,
with the administration in Pechenihy.
References
Former raions of Kharkiv Oblast
1923 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
Chuhuiv Raion
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