Zaporizhzhia Raion ( uk, Запорізький район, ) is one of the 5
raions
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(
district
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s) of
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Zaporizhzhia Oblast ( uk, Запорі́зька о́бласть, translit=Zaporizka oblast), also referred to as Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запорі́жжя, links=no), is an oblast (province) of southeast Ukraine. Its capital is Zaporizhzhia. The ...
in southeast
Ukraine
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. The administrative center of the raion is located in the city of
Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zapor ...
.
Population: According to the
2001 census,
[ its population was 54,804.
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Zaporizhzhia Raion was significantly expanded. ]
Geography
Zaporizhzhia Raion is located in the northeast portion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, surrounding the oblast's administrative center Zaporizhzhia.[ The ]Dnieper
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and Konka River
The Konka ( uk, Конка, Кінські Води, Кінська, Кінка, crh, Yilki Su) is a left tributary of the Dnieper, flowing through the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Among cities that are located ...
s flow through the raion.[
]
History
The territory which is now the Zaporizhzhia Raion was first established as the Voznesenskyi Raion ( uk, Вознесенський район) on 7 March 1923 as part of a full-scale administrative reorganization of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
.
In 1926, it was renamed to the Khortytsia Raion ( uk, Хортицький район). From 1929 to 1930, it was named the Khortytsia German Raion ( uk, Хортицький німецький район). On 11 February 1939, the Zaporizhzhia Raion itself was created.[
After ]World War II
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, the raion was disestablished, only to be recreated again on 14 January 1965.
Government
Zaporizhzhia Raion is governed by the Zaporizhzhia Raion Council ( uk, Запорізька районна рада, ), which consists of 38 locally elected deputies. The raion is represented by the 82nd electoral district in Ukraine's parliament
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
; its current MP is Maryna Nikitina of the Servant of the People
Servant of the People (SN; uk, Слуга народу, Sluha narodu, ) is a liberal, centrist, pro-European political party in Ukraine.
It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previously ...
party.
Administrative divisions
Zaporizhzhia Raion is divided in a way that follows the general administrative scheme in Ukraine. Local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...
is also organized along a similar scheme nationwide. Consequently, raions are subdivided into councils, which are the prime level of administrative division in the country.
Each of the raion's urban populated places administer their own councils, often containing a few villages and rural settlements within its jurisdiction. However, only a handful of rural populated places are organized into councils, which also may contain a few villages and rural settlements within its jurisdiction.
Accordingly, Zaporizhzhia Raion is divided into: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 ...
s of Balabyne, Kushuhum, and Malokaterynivka
* 16 rural councils
Overall, the raion has a total of 71 populated places, consisting of three urban-type settlements
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 ...
, 61 villages
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, and seven rural settlements.[
]
Demographics
In the 2001 Ukrainian census, the raion's total population was 54,804. The percentage of the population which indicated Ukrainian as their native language constituted 50.2 percent, compared to 48.19% for the Russian language.
References
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Raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
States and territories established in 1939
1939 establishments in Ukraine