Radekhiv ( uk, Раде́хів; pl, Radziechów) is a city in
Chervonohrad Raion
Chervonohrad Raion ( uk, Червоноградський район) is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of ...
,
Lviv Oblast
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(
region
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) of
Ukraine
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. It hosts the administration of
Radekhiv urban hromada
Radekhiv ( uk, Раде́хів; pl, Radziechów) is a city in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Radekhiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: .
Ed Stelmach, the premier of ...
, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
Population: .
Ed Stelmach
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, the premier of the Canadian province of
Alberta
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from 2006 to 2011, is descended from immigrants who arrived in Canada from Radekhi
The town is the birthplace of Polish lawyer and government minister Kazimierz Wladyslaw Kumaniecki, Polish diplomat Marian Szumlakowski, and Polish art historian Juliusz Ross.
Until 18 July 2020, Radekhiv was the administrative center of
Radekhiv Raion
Radekhiv Raion ( uk, Радехівський район) was a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Radekhiv. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduce ...
. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Radekhiv Raion was merged into Chervonohrad Raion.
Gallery
File:Radekhiv2.JPG, City hall
File:Radekhiv5.JPG, Old brewery
File:Stara Cerkiew.jpg, Wooden church in Radekhiv
References
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Cities in Lviv Oblast
Tarnopol Voivodeship
Cities of district significance in Ukraine