List of towns in Ukraine

Urban-type settlement (Ukrainian: селище міського типу, romanized: selyshche miskoho typu) is a type of administrative division for human settlements in Ukraine, set to be phased out on 24 January 2024.

History

Urban-type settlement has been a designation used across many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union.

In 1925, the designation of "urban-type settlement" was officially established in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, replacing the previous term "town" (Ukrainian: містечко, romanized: mistechko).[1] In 1981, the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR passed a resolution further specifying the definition of an urban-type settlement, and making it more clear how settlements could change their status.[2]

Ukraine became independent in 1991,[3] but retained the Soviet-era classifications of inhabited localities. On 1 January 2006, there were 885 urban-type settlements in Ukraine.[citation needed] In July 2023, this number had fallen to 881.[4]

On 24 October 2023, as part of wider decommunization in independent Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 8263 that would abolish of the concept of "urban-type settlement" in Ukraine, which he said was to facilitate "de-Sovietization of the procedure for solving certain issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine." The law is set to come into effect three months after its signing - meaning on 24 January 2024.[5] This was part of administrative reforms for decentralization intended to help reduce corruption.

List

Below is the list of all urban-type settlements that existed in Ukraine.

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Cherkasy Oblast

Chernihiv Oblast

Chernivtsi Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Kharkiv Oblast

Kherson Oblast

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Kyiv Oblast

Kirovohrad Oblast

Luhansk Oblast

Lviv Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast

Odesa Oblast

Poltava Oblast

Rivne Oblast

Sevastopol

Sumy Oblast

Ternopil Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast

Volyn Oblast

Zakarpattia Oblast

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Zhytomyr Oblast

See also

References

  1. ^ ЗУРРСУУ/1925/1/80/Про загальну назву селищ міського типу  (in Ukrainian) – via Wikisource.
  2. ^ "Official Decree of the Presidium of Verkhovna Rada of March 12, 1981" (in Ukrainian).
  3. ^ A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples Archived 7 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442610212 (page 563/564 & 722/723)
  4. ^ В Україні ліквідували селища міського типу: що ще передбачає новий закон про населені пункти
  5. ^ "Zelenskyy abolished urban-type settlements" (in Ukrainian). Ukrainska Pravda. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

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