Poltava Raion

Subdivision of Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Raion in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Poltava Raion Полтавський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 49°35′22″N 34°33′05″E / 49.58944°N 34.55139°E / 49.58944; 34.55139
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Poltava Oblast
Established	March 7, 1923
Admin. center	Poltava
Subdivisions	24 hromadas
Government
• Governor	Lidia Lepeyko
Area
• Total	1,259 km² (486 sq mi)
Population (2022)^[1]
• Total	582,391
• Density	460/km² (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	38701—38786
Area code	+380-5322
Website	Official homepage

Poltava Raion (Ukrainian: Полтавський район) is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Poltava. Population: 582,391 (2022 estimate).^[1]

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Poltava Raion was significantly expanded. ^[2]^[3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 68,174 (2020 est.).^[4]

Administrative division

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 24 hromadas:^[3]

Bilyky settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Bilyky, transferred from Kobeliaky Raion;^[5]
Chutove settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Chutove, transferred from Chutove Raion;^[6]
Dykanka settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Dykanka, transferred from Dykanka Raion;^[7]
Karlivka urban hromada with the administration in the city of Karlivka, transferred from Karlivka Raion;^[8]
Kobeliaky urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kobeliaky, transferred from Kobeliaky Raion;^[5]
Kolomatske rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Kolomatske, retained from Poltava Raion;
Kotelva settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Kotelva, transferred from Kotelva Raion;^[9]
Lanna rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Lanna, transferred from Karlivka Raion;^[8]
Machukhy rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Machukhy, retained from Poltava Raion;
Martynivka rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Martynivka, transferred from Karlivka Raion;^[8]
Mashivka settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Mashivka, transferred from Mashivka Raion;^[10]
Mykhailivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Mykhailivka, transferred from Mashivka Raion;^[10]
Novoselivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Novoselivka, retained from Poltava Raion;
Poltava urban hromada with the administration in the city of Poltava, transferred from city of the oblast significance of Poltava and retained from Poltava Raion;^[11]
Shcherbani rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Shcherbani, retained from Poltava Raion;
Skorokhodove settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Skorokhodove, transferred from Chutove Raion;^[6]
Tereshky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Tereshky, retained from Poltava Raion;
Velyka Rublivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Velyka Rublivka, transferred from Kotelva Raion.^[9]

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of five hromadas,^[12]

Kolomatske rural hromada with the administration in Kolomatske, retained from Poltava Raion;
Machukhy rural hromada with the administration in Machukhy, retained from Poltava Raion;
Novoselivka rural hromada with the administration in Novoselivka, retained from Poltava Raion;
Shcherbani rural hromada with the administration in Shcherbani, retained from Poltava Raion;
Tereshky rural hromada with the administration in Tereshky, retained from Poltava Raion.

References

^ ^a ^b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
^ ^a ^b "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Кобеляцька районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ ^a ^b "Чутівська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ "Диканська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Карлівська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ ^a ^b "Котелевська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ ^a ^b "Машівська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ "Полтавская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ "Полтавська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.