Sambir Raion Explained

Sambir Raion
Native Name:	Самбірський район
Native Name Lang:	uk
Settlement Type:	Raion
Flag Alt:	Flag of Sambir Raion
Shield Alt:	Coat of arms of Sambir Raion
Image Map1:	Sambir Raion 2020.svg
Coordinates:	49.5511°N 23.3222°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Oblast
Parts Type:	Subdivisions
Parts:	11 hromadas
Established Title:	Established
Established Date:	8 January 1965
Seat Type:	Admin. center
Seat:	Sambir
Leader Title:	Governor
Leader Title1:	Chairman
Unit Pref:	Metric
Area Total Km2:	3247.1
Population Total:	221896
Population As Of:	2022
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone1:	EET
Utc Offset1:	+02:00
Timezone1 Dst:	EEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:	+03:00
Postal Code Type:	Postal index
Postal Code:	81420—81485
Area Code Type:	Area code
Area Code:	380-3236

Sambir Raion (Ukrainian: Самбірський район) is a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sambir. Population: It was established in 1965.

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Sambir Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Staryi Sambir and Turka Raions, as well as the city of Sambir, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Sambir Raion.^{[1] [2]} The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 11 hromadas:^[2]

• Biskovychi rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Biskovychi, retained from Sambir Raion;
• Borynia settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Borynia, transferred from Turka Raion;^[3]
• Dobromyl urban hromada with the administration in the city of Dobromyl, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;^[4]
• Khyriv urban hromada with the administration in the city of Khyriv, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;^[4]
• Novyi Kalyniv urban hromada with the administration in the city of Novyi Kalyniv, retained from Sambir Raion;
• Ralivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Ralivka, retained from Sambir Raion;
• Rudky urban hromada with the administration in the city of Rudky, retained from Sambir Raion.
• Sambir urban hromada, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Sambir;^[5]
• Staryi Sambir urban hromada with the administration in the city of Staryi Sambir, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;^[4]
• Strilky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Strilky, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;^[4]
• Turka urban hromada with the administration in the city of Turka, transferred from Turka Raion.^[3]

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas,^[6]

• Biskovychi rural hromada with the administration in Biskovychi;
• Novyi Kalyniv urban hromada with the administration in Novyi Kalyniv;
• Ralivka rural hromada with the administration in Ralivka;
• Rudky urban hromada with the administration in Rudky.

Settlements in Sambir Raion

Sambir Raion consists of 2 city communities, 1 settlement community, 7 rural communities and 9 village councils, which unite 110 settlements and are subordinate to the Sambir district council. The administrative center is the city of Sambir, which is a city of regional importance and is not part of the district.^[7]

United territorial communities of Sambir district:

• Babynska village community
• Biskovytska rural community
• Vilshanytska village community
• Vole-Baranetska rural community
• Voiutytska village community
• Dublianska settlement community
• Lukivska village community
• Novokalynivska city community
• Rudkivska city community
• Chukvianska rural community

Villages:

• Berestiany
• Biskovychi
• Chukva
• Hordynia
• Kalyniv
• Kornalovychi
• Kulchytsi
• Lanovychi

People from Sambir Raion

• Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570-1622) — a Ukrainian political and civic leader, Hetman of Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks
• Marko Zhmaylo-Kulchytskyy — Registered Cossacks Hetman (1625), leader of the peasant-Cossack Zhmaylo Uprising in 1625.
• Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky (1640-1694) — Ukrainian political and civic leader.
• Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006) — Ukrainian-American historian, first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.^[8]

See also

• Administrative divisions of Lviv Oblast

Notes and References

1. News: Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.. 2020-10-03. 2020-07-18. Голос України. uk.
2. Web site: Нові райони: карти + склад . Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України . Ukrainian.
3. Web site: Турківська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.) . Портал об'єднаних громад України . Russian.
4. Web site: Старосамбірська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.) . Портал об'єднаних громад України . Russian.
5. Web site: Самбірська територіальна громада . decentralization.gov.ua . uk.
6. Web site: Самбірська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.) . Портал об'єднаних громад України . Russian.
7. http://static.rada.gov.ua/zakon/new/ADM/zmistlv.html Адміністративно-територіальний устрій Самбірського району
8. News: Omeljan Pritsak, scholar of Ukrainian, Turkic studies, 87. 11 June 2006. Peter T.. Woloschuk. The Ukrainian Weekly. Obituary . 14 October 2017.