Urban districts of Ukraine


An urban district or urban raion is an administrative division of certain cities in Ukraine. An urban district is subordinate to the city administration.

Overview

There are 111 districts in 19 cities of Ukraine. The cities that contain district division in a city usually are of national or regional significance. The number of districts in city per region varies between the minimum of two and up to 21 in Donetsk Oblast.
The Article 133 of the Constitution of Ukraine states that districts in cities are element of the administrative-territorial division of state, while the Article 140 states that issues in organization of management of districts in cities belongs to the competence of city's councils.
The status of Kiev city is defined by the Law of Ukraine "About capital of Ukraine - Hero-city Kiev".
Before February 2016 many districts were named for people, places, events, and organizations associated with early years of the Soviet Union; but many were renamed since to comply with decommunization laws.

List of urban districts in Ukraine

Kyiv

Sevastopol

Cherkasy Oblast

Chernihiv Oblast

Chernivtsi Oblast

Crimea

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast

Kharkiv Oblast

Kherson Oblast

Kirovohrad Oblast

Luhansk Oblast

Lviv Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast

Odessa Oblast

Poltava Oblast

Sumy Oblast

Zaporizhia Oblast

Zhytomyr Oblast