Shevchenkivskyi District ( uk, Шевченківський 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 the Ukrainian poet
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...
.
The district was created in 1932 out of parts of Ivano-Lysohirskyi and Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi districts. It was named as Dzerzhynskyi after the communist mass murder
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ( pl, Feliks Dzierżyński ; russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official, born into Poland, Polish n ...
, head of
Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə), abbreviated ...
(All-Russian Extraordinary Commission). It was renamed to its current name in February 2016 to comply with
decommunization laws.
[Another 48 streets and 5 districts "decommunized" in Kharkiv]
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(3 February 2015)Three districts renamed in Kharkiv
SQ (3 February 2015)It was decided not to rename the Zhovtnevyi and the Frunzenskyi districts in Kharkiv
Korrespondent.net
The ''Korrespondent.net'' (russian: Корреспондент.net; uk, Кореспондент.net; literally: ''Correspondent'') is an online newspaper in Ukraine launched in 2000. It is a sister project to the '' Korrespondent'' printed weekl ...
(3 February 2015)
Places
* Universytetska hirka
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Derzhprom
The Derzhprom ( uk, Держпром) or Gosprom (russian: Госпром) building is an office building located on Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Built in the Constructivist style, it was the first modern skyscraper building in th ...
(Gosprom)
* Pavlivka
* Shatylivka
* Sokolnyky
* Pavlove Pole
* Oleksiivka
* Tykhi vulytsi
References
External links
Dzerzhynsky Raionwebsite
* Volkov, E.
Dzerzhynskiy Raion: From its origins to the contemporary times (ДЗЕРЖИНСКИЙ РАЙОН: ОТ ИСТОКОВ ДО СОВРЕМЕННОСТИ)'. Eduard Volkov website. 20 May 2010.
Urban districts of Kharkiv
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