Saltivskyi District ( uk, Салтівський район) is an urban district of the city of

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.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 ...

, named after

Saltivka Saltivka ( uk, Салтiвка) is a large residential area located in the northeastern region of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine. It covers most of the eponymous Saltivskyi District with parts extending into the Kyivskyi District and Nemyshlyansky ...

residential area. The district was created in 1937 when Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi District was split into Kahanovychskyi and Stalinskyi districts. In 1961 Stalinskyi District was renamed to Moskovskyi. On 11 May 2022, it was renamed to Saltivskyi because the name "Moskovskyi" was "associated with the aggressor country" following the February

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

. Saltivka had been one of the worst affected areas in Kharkiv of the Battle of Kharkiv.

Places

* Saburova dacha * selyshche imeni Kirova * Yevheniivka *

: Pershe Saltivske selyshche, Pivnichna Saltivka * micro-districts: 601, 603, 604, 606, 531, 533, 521 * Rodnyky

References

External links

Moskovskyi Raion
website * Korol, Yu., Zaitsev, B., Kudelko, S., Posokhov, S.

'. "Prapor". 1994. Urban districts of Kharkiv {{Kharkiv-geo-stub