Poltava Oblast
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| Administrative center | Poltava | ||||
| Governor | Valeriy Asadchev (?) | ||||
| Oblast council - Chairperson - Council seats |
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| Subdivisions - Raions - Cities of oblast subordinance - Cities -Towns - Villages |
25 5 15 21 1,831 |
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| Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) |
Ranked 6th 28,748 km² ? km² ? km² (?%) |
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| Population - Total (2006) - Density - Annual Growth |
Ranked ? 1,544,085 55/km² ?% |
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| Abbreviations - Postal code - ISO 3166-2 - FIPS 10-4 - Phone code |
36000-38999 UA-53 UP18 +380-53 |
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| Web site | www.obladmin.poltava.ua | ||||
Poltava Oblast (Ukrainian: Полтавська область, translit. Poltavs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Poltavshchyna - Ukrainian: Полтавщина) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.
Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny, Myrhorod, and Poltava.
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[edit] Geography
Poltava Oblast is situated in the central part of Ukraine. It has an area of 28,800 km². The oblast’ borders upon Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnopropetrovs’k, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy and Kyiv regions.
[edit] Demographics
It is believed that normalized Ukrainian has been based on a 19th century local peasant dialect. Today, however, at least half of the province' population speaks either Russian or a creole of Russian and Ukrainian named Surzhyk. It was mostly a result of industry-related immigration and Russification.
As of 2005-05-01 its population is 1,584,446, and its population density is 59 people on 1 km².
[edit] Economy
[edit] Industry
The oblast’ is a center of Ukraine's oil and natural gas industry, with many wells and pipelines situated here. There is a major oil refinery plant in the city of Krementchuk. Important iron ore processing facilities also present. In general there are 374 large industrial organization and 618 small industrial organizations.
[edit] Agriculture
In 1999 the gross grain yield was about 1452,9 thousand tons, sugar beets – 1002,900 tons, sunflower seeds – 166,200 tons, potatoes – 279,900 tons. The oblast also produced 120,500 tons of meat, 645,900 tons of milk and 423,200,00 eggs. At the beginning of 1999 there were 1,311 registered farms in the region.
[edit] Administrative divisions
The oblast is divided into 25 districts, 15 cities including 5 settlements of city estate, 21 urban villages, and 1862 villages.
The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Poltava Oblast’:
- Administrative Center - 1 (Poltava)
- Raions — 25;
- City raions — 5;
- Settlements — 1526, including:
- Villages — 1,831;
- Cities/Towns — 35, including:
- Urban-type settlement — 21;
- Cities — 15, including:
- Cities of oblast' subordinance — 7;
- Cities of raion subordinance — 8;
- Selsovets — 384.
The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Poltava Oblast Rada. The governer of the oblast’ is the Poltava Oblast’ Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.
[edit] Nomenclature
Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr). The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Poltava is the center of the Poltavs’ka oblast’ (Poltava Oblast). Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Sumy Oblast, Poltavshchyna.
- See also: Romanization of Ukrainian
[edit] External links
- State Administration of Poltava Region - official site (Ukrainian)
- Information Card of the Region - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
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Administrative divisions of Poltava Oblast, Ukraine |  |
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Raions: Chornukhynskyi | Chutivskyi | Dykanskyi | Hadyatskyi | Hlobynskyi | Hrebinkivskyi | Karlivskyi | Khorolskyi | Kobeliatskyi | Kotelevskyi | Kozelschynskyi | Kremenchutskyi | Lokhvytskyi | Lubenskyi | Mashivskyi | Myrhorodskyi | Novosanzharskyi | Orzhytskyi | Poltavskyi | Pyryatynskyi | Reshetylivskyi | Semenivskyi | Shyshatskyi | Velykobahachanskyi | Zinkivskyi |
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Cities: Chervonozavodske | Hadiach | Hlobyne | Hrebinka | Karlivka | Khorol | Kobeliaky | Komsomolsk, Ukraine | Kremenchuk | Lokhvytsia | Lubny | Myrhorod | Poltava | Pyriatyn | Zinkiv |
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Urban-type settlements: Chornukhy | Chutove | Dykanka | Kotelva | Kozelschyna | Mashivka | Novi Sanzhary | Orzhytsia | Reshetylivka | Semenivka | Shyshaky | Velyka Bahachka | more... |
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Villages: Velyki Sorochyntsi | more... |
