Shyriaieve Raion ( uk, Ширяївський район) 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) in Odesa Oblast of

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. Its administrative center 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 ...

Shyriaieve Shyriaieve ( uk, Ширяєве, russian: Ширяево) is an urban-type settlement in the west of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Shyriaieve settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Shyriaieve is ...

. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Shyriaieve Raion was merged into Berezivka Raion. According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of the Şîreaieve district spoke Ukrainian (91.13%), with Romanian (4.3%) and Russian (3.62%) speakers in the minority. The last estimate of the raion population was

Administrative divisions

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of four

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s: * Chohodarivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Chohodarivka; * Petrovirivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Petrovirivka; * Stari Maiaky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Stari Maiaky; * Shyriaieve settlement hromada with the administration in Shyriaieve.

History

Shyriaieve was founded in the end of the 18th century as Stepanovka (Stepanivka), named after the landowner Stepan Shyriay. The area was settled after 1792, when the lands between the

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and the

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were transferred to Russia according to the Iasi Peace Treaty. The area was included in

Tiraspolsky Uyezd The Tiraspol uezd (; ) was one of the subdivisions of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the southwestern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Tiraspol. Demographics At the time of the Russian Empi ...

, which belonged to

Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty The Ekaterinoslav Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire was created on 26 March 1783 by merging the Novorossiya Governorate and Azov Governorate. On 31 December 1796, it was incorporated into the re-established Novorossiya Governorate. Viceroyalty ...

until 1795, Voznesensk Viceroyalty until 1796, Novorossiya Governorate until 1803, and

Kherson Governorate The Kherson Governorate (1802–1922; russian: Херсонская губерния, translit.: ''Khersonskaya guberniya''; uk, Херсонська губернія, translit=Khersonska huberniia), was an administrative territorial unit (als ...

until 1920. In 1834, the area was transferred to newly established Ananyevsky uezd. In the middle of the 19th century Stepanivka was formally renamed Shiryayevo (Shyriaieve). On 16 April 1920,

Odesa Governorate Odesa Governorate (), was a territorial division of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine) that was created in January 1920 by a decision of the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee (Soviet regime). The new governorate was initially created from the weste ...

split off, and Ananyiv Uyezd was moved to Odesa Governorate, where it was abolished in 1921. In 1923, uyezds in

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

were abolished, and the governorates were divided into okruhas.

References

{{Authority control Former raions of Odesa Oblast 1935 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform History of Berezivka Raion History of Rozdilna Raion