List of urban-type settlements in Ukraine

Urban-type settlement (Ukrainian: селище міського типу, romanized: selysche mis'koho typu) was an administrative term for a type of human settlement in Ukraine from 1981 until 2023.

In 1981, when Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union, the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR created this administrative unit.[1] Urban-type settlement has been a designation used across many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union.

Ukraine became independent in 1991,[2] but retained the Soviet-era classifications of inhabited localities. On 1 January 2006, there were 885 urban-type settlements in Ukraine. In July 2023, this number had fallen to 881.[3]

On 24 October 2023, as part of wider decommunization in independent Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 8263 that abolished 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."[4]

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. (in Ukrainian) Official Decree of the Presidium of Verkhovna Rada of March 12, 1981
  2. 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)
  3. В Україні ліквідували селища міського типу: що ще передбачає новий закон про населені пункти
  4. "Zelenskyy abolished urban-type settlements" (in Ukrainian). Ukrainska Pravda. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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