City of regional significance (Ukraine) explained

See also: Populated places in Ukraine and List of cities in Ukraine.

Cities of regional significance
Category:	Second-level subdivision
Territory:	Ukraine
Start Date:	1932
End Date:	2020
Current Number:	182
Number Date:	2015
Government:	City council
Subdivision:	Urban districts Councils (municipalities)

A city of regional significance (Ukrainian: місто обласного значення|misto oblasnoho znachennia) in Ukraine was a type of second-level administrative division or municipality, the other type being raions (districts). In the first-level division of oblasts, they were referred to as cities of oblast significance; in the first-level autonomous republic of Crimea, they were cities of republican significance. The designation was created with the introduction of oblasts in 1932. It was abolished in a 2020 reform that merged raions together and integrated the city municipalities into them.

Such city municipality was complex and usually combined the city proper and adjacent populated places. The city of regional (oblast) significance was governed by a city council known as mis'krada, which was chaired by a mayor. There were instances where a municipality might have included only the city alone (city proper), while in others instances a municipality might have consisted of its own subdivisions such as districts in city, similarly to the cities with special status or even other cities which carried the designation of cities of district significance.

Definition

Each region had at least one city of regional significance as its administrative center. A city was usually granted the status for being an economic and cultural center that has a developed industry, utilities, a considerable amount of state provided housing, and a population of over 50,000, and if for further economic and social development of a city it was appropriate to establish a direct management by regional organizations.

In some cases, a city with a population of less than 50,000 could be a city of regional significance if it had industrial, social-cultural, and historical significance, or a propensity for further economical and social development and population increase. These exceptions were usually granted on a decision of the Supreme Council of Ukraine  - the Verkhovna Rada.

The city could be divided into districts at the city's authorities' discretion. Along with the raions of a region, the cities of regional significance are the second level of administrative-territorial division of Ukraine. Beside having districts, the city can be divided into various municipal councils (rada, often considered its extended metropolitan area and suburbs) such as smaller city councils, town councils, or rural councils. A city of regional significance can simply be composed of one settlement itself.

In 2012, there were 178 cities of regional significance across the different regions of Ukraine, ranging from the Donetsk Region, which has the highest number of cities at 28. On average there are seven cities in each oblast or Crimea.

List of cities by oblast

Population statistics are from the 2001 Ukrainian Census. An asterisk (*) indicates cities that have district division.

Cherkasy Oblast

	Name	Year	Area (km^2.)	Population	Density	No. of settlements
						width=10%	Urban !	width=10%	Rural
a		1992	11	20,971	1,906	1	1
b		1992	45	29,925	665	1	3
c		19??	17	26,657	1,568	?	?
d		19??	40	69,720	1,743	1	1
e		19??	41	88,735	2,164	?	?
f	Cherkasy	19??	78	296,191	3,797	1	1

Chernihiv Oblast

	Name	Year	Area (km^2.)	Population	Density	No. of settlements
						width=10%	Urban !	width=10%	Rural
a		19??	43	76,625	1,782	?	?
b		19??	40	64,861	1,622	?	?
c	Chernihiv	19??	71	304,994	4,296	?	?
d		????	11.81	15,175	1,285	?	?

Chernivtsi Oblast

	Name	Year	Area (km^2.)	Population	Density	No. of settlements
						width=10%	Urban !	width=10%	Rural
a		2000	3	10,342	3,447	?	?
b	Chernivtsi	19??	153	240,621	1,573	?	?

Crimea

	Name	Year	Area (km^2.)	Population	Density	No. of settlements
						width=10%	Urban !	width=10%	Rural
a		1964	600	53,727	90	2	24
b		1993	162	26,187	162	1	3
c		1976	22	31,023	1,410	1
d		1963	26	43,343	1,667	1
e		19??	65	120,638	1,856	4
f		19??	108	157,007	1,454	1
g		1979	29	29,416	1,014	1
h	Simferopol	19??	107	363,597	3,398	5	1
i		19??	539	28,319	53	2	14
j		19??	350	108,571	310	6	11
k		19??	283	144,434	510	23	9

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

	Name	Year	Area (km^2.)	Population	Density	No. of settlements
						width=10%	Urban !	width=10%	Rural
a		1990	10	23,782	2,378	?	?
b	Kamianske	193?	150	262,704	1,751	2	1
c	Dnipro	19??	397	1,080,846	2,723	2	0
d		1957	34	54,370	1,599	1	1
e	Kryvyi Rih	19??	422	712,507	1,688	1	5
f		19??	36	50,591	1,405	2	1
g		1937	50	136,280	2,726	?	?
h		19??	36	72,439	2,012	?	?
i		19??	26	46,532	1,790	3	0
j		19??	59	118,816	2,014	?	?
k		1989	3	29,140	9,713	?	?
l		1979	23	32,302	1,404	?	?
m		1990	18	29,253	1,625	1	1

Donetsk Oblast

	Name	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population	Density	No. of settlements
						width=10%	Urban ! width=10%	Rural
a			29	37,210	1,283
b			74	113,360	1,532
c			5	17,440	3,488
d			422	314,660	746
e			38	52,214	1,374
f			62	87,024	1,404
g			23	55,815	2,427
h			20	71,695	3,585
i			119	25,265	212
j			571	1,033,424	1,810
k			47	74,901	1,594
l			425	161,535	380
m			2	14,793	7,397
n			7	30,910	4,416
o			66	95,111	1,441
p			356	216,162	607
q			192	29,610	154
r			39	83,251	2,135
s			426	432,830	1,016
t			244	514,548	2,109
u			6	17,473	2,912
v			108	62,589	580
w			74	146,585	1,981
x			189	82,609	437
y			105	95,632	911
z			207	114,105	551
aa			51	71,658	1,405
ab			19	37,552	1,976

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			300	21,219	71
b			84	233,418	2,779
c			65	67,902	1,045
d			41	61,989	1,512
e			657	21,450	33
f			32.71	15,298	467

Kyiv Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			20	54,591	2,730
b			33	17,367	526
c			34	200,131	5,886
d			34	86,839	2,554
e			21	39,722	1,892
f			38	101,761	2,678
g			32	31,634	989
h			6	0	0
i			36	8,447	235
j			21	24,402	1,162
k			43	51,976	1,209
l	Bucha		26	28,533	1,100
m	Obukhiv		24	32,737	1,400

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Kirovohrad Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			15	35,569	2,371
b			103	262,543	2,549
c			61	104,461	1,712
d			45	57,609	1,280

Kharkiv Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			40	56,114	1,403
b			33	62,620	1,898
c			18	73,098	4,061
d			31	26,945	869
e			30	33,016	1,101
f			306	1,470,902	4,807
g			13	37,715	2,901

Kherson Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			31	38,238	1,233
b			223	74,599	335
c			423	367,188	868
d			9	16,028	1,780

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			26	99,610	3,831
b			66	34,340	520
c			22	34,358	1,562
d			17	35,206	2,071
e			86	253,994	2,953
f			38	48,212	1,269

Luhansk Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			49	119,193	2,433
b			61	90,835	1,489
c			64	61,357	959
n			92	108,266	1,177
d			35	45,012	1,286
e			154	145,129	942
f			77	118,168	1,535
g			96	133,258	1,388
h			286	503,248	1,760
i			89	80,622	906
j			217	91,712	423
k			34	65,322	1,921
l			84	110,159	1,311
m			58	129,752	2,237

Lviv Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			37	40,434	1,093
b			41	99,982	2,439
c	Lviv		171	758,526	4,436
d			2	6,482	3,241
e			8	28,227	3,528
f			15	36,556	2,437
g			17	62,479	3,675
h			8	31,037	3,880
i			17	85,359	5,021

Mykolaiv Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			23	42,634	1,854
b			260	514,136	1,977
c			13	16,929	1,302
d			25	70,170	2,807
e			24	38,206	1,592

Odesa Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			31	58,436	1,885
b			25	63,726	2,549
c			53	84,815	1,600
d	Odesa		139	1,029,049	7,403
e			15	40,718	2,715
f			3	8,830	2,943
g			9	23,977	2,664
h			22.97	19,962	869
i			14.554	14,294	982

Poltava Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			174	54,313	312
b			96	234,073	2,438
c			30	52,572	1,752
d			29	42,886	1,479
e			104	317,998	3,058
f			17.78	22,698	1275

Rivne Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			27	39,146	1,450
b			10	14,801	1,480
c			58	248,813	4,290
d			4	38,830	9,708

Sumy Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			84	36,056	429
b			103	97,296	945
c			167	29,710	178
d			31	50,713	1,636
e			29	50,929	1,756
f			36	87,130	2,420
g			146	295,847	2,026

Ternopil Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			59	227,755	3,860
b			30	29,057	969
c			18.14	22,051	1,216
d			18	17,617	979

Vinnytsia Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			61	356,665	5,847
b			18	37,349	2,075
c			9	27,643	3,071
d			11	23,456	2,132
e			22	33,138	1,506
f			20	27,898	1,395

Volyn Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			17	38,256	2,250
b			47	66,401	1,413
c			42	208,816	4,972
d			17	58,688	3,452

Zakarpattia Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			15	27,235	1,816
b			28	82,346	2,941
c			33	117,317	3,555
d			11	32,348	2,941
e			2	8,919	4,460

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			83	124,959	1,506
b			64	56,242	879
c			236	817,882	3,466
d			42	160,657	3,825
e			32	36,275	1,134

Zhytomyr Oblast

	Raion or city	Raion or city (Ukrainian Wikipedia)	Area (km^2.)	Population (1 December 2001)	Density (people on 1 km^2.)	Centre	Important cities
a			36	87,575	2,433
b			61	284,236	4,660
c			30	66,669	2,222
d			27	56,259	2,084
e			61	27,083	0,346

See also

• Administrative divisions of Ukraine
• City of district significance (Ukraine), similar category for smaller cities
• Consolidated city-county
• List of places named after people (Ukraine)

External links

• Web site: uk:Регіони України та їх склад . Regions of Ukraine and their composition . http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/a002 . 2011-12-25 . . uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111226134808/http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/a002 . 26 December 2011 .
• Web site: On Procedure of settlement of matters of administrative-territorial structure of the Ukrainian SSR. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 6 October 2013. uk.