23-519: Parkhomivka is a name of several populated places in Ukraine . It may refer to: Populated places in Ukraine In Ukraine, the term "populated place" ( Ukrainian : населений пункт , romanized : naselenyi punkt ) refers to a structured component of the human settlement system, representing a stationary community within a territorially cohesive and compact area characterized by
46-410: A country. A rural hromada may be composed of a single village or group of villages. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there were 27,190 villages in Ukraine that were organized into 10,278 rural (village) councils. According to the 2023 law "About the order to solve separate issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine", a village identified as a populated place with predominantly
69-515: A double meaning in the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine. It was used either for urban-type settlements or for some smaller populated places which are often part of a rural hromada . Unlike other nomenclatures for populated places, in the Constitution of Ukraine a term like urban-type settlement was not defined and was part of the Soviet legislature that was conditionally grandfathered. In 2023
92-404: A law was passed to finally eliminate any deviations or variations of the term selyshche clearly categorizing them as rural type of populated place along with villages. The law also merged the two categories that de facto existed in Ukraine. According to the 2023 law "About the order to solve separate issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine", a rural settlement ( selyshche )
115-417: A private housing total population of which is less than 5,000 people. In 1995 there was created a special category for mountainous populated places in Ukraine. Mountainous status is received by populated places located in mountainous area, have inadequately developed sphere of employment and social services as well as a limited transportation access (low development density of infrastructure or infrastructure
138-501: A significant concentration of population. Its defining attribute is the continuous presence of human inhabitants. Populated places in Ukraine are classified into two primary categories: urban and rural. Urban populated places are cities, whereas rural areas include villages and rural settlements. According to data from the 2001 Ukrainian Census , there are 1,344 urban and 28,621 rural populated places in Ukraine. All populated places are governed by their hromada (municipality), may it be
161-649: A village, a city or any settlement hromada. A municipality may consist of one or several populated places and is (except Kyiv and Sevastopol ) a constituent part of a raion (district) which in turn is constituents of an oblast (province). Beside regular populated places in Ukraine that are part of administrative division and population census, there are several additional categories for populated places that are used for other purposes. Among such categories are mountainous populated places, historic populated places, and others. The 2015 law on decommunization required populated places and toponymy related to Ukraine's past in
184-466: Is " community ", similar to the terms used in western European states, such as Germany ( Gemeinde ), France ( commune ), Italy ( comune ), and Portugal ( freguesia ), or in several English-speaking countries ( township ). In total, there are 1469 hromadas (as of 1 October 2023), including: Prior to 2020, the basic units of administrative division in Ukraine were rural councils, settlement councils and city councils, which were often referred to by
207-618: Is designated urban hromada if its administration is located in a city ; settlement hromada if it is located in a settlement ( selyshche ), and rural hromada if it is located in a village ( selo ) or another rural settlement. Territories of hromadas (which, in turn, are divided into 7744 starosta okruhs (elderships)) form raions (districts) and several raions form oblasts (regions). Similar terms exist in Poland ( gromada ) and in Belarus ( hramada ). The literal translation of this term
230-480: Is identified as a populated place with predominantly a private housing total population of which is no less than 5,000 people. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there are 1,266 rural settlements in Ukraine (excluding urban-type settlements, which still existed at the time and some of which were reclassified as selyshche ). Village as a term became systematic for a conventional rural populated place and most numerous out of all terms used for populated places in
253-405: Is weak). Among historic types of populated places in Ukraine are places like khutir , prysilok, zymivnyk, mistechko , sloboda , horod . Collective and/or soviet farms used to be based either on an individual settlement (village) or include several neighboring rural settlements (villages, khutirs, slobodas). Ukrainian khutirs were destroyed in 1930s–1940s during the Soviet occupation as part of
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#1733086139240276-702: The Government of Ukraine approved the territories and administrative centers of the hromadas, which cover settlements in all regions of Ukraine except for Crimea . A total of 1470 hromadas were approved. On 12 August 2020 the Sokoliv hromada of the Cherkasy Oblast became a part of the Zhashkiv hromada. Thus, there were 1469 hromadas. Each hromada carries out two types of task: own and commissioned. Own tasks are public tasks exercised by self-government, which serve to satisfy
299-631: The Soviet Union to be renamed. Leading to a string of new Ukrainian toponyms . On 21 March 2023, about a year following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent occupation of parts of Ukraine by Russia, the Ukrainian parliament adopted the law " On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy ", which is set to change
322-530: The Soviet era category of urban-type settlement ( селище міського типу , selyshche miskoho typu ) was abolished and conflated with the already existing category of rural settlement. City with special status is treated as a city-region. Most cities in Ukraine are the centres of the corresponding hromada . Two cities ( Chernobyl and Pripyat ) are abandoned and are governed by the State Agency of Ukraine on
345-778: The Exclusion Zone Management. City status a populated place receives on a decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine . Cities that have population of less than 50,000 are considered to be small cities and fall under a special state program in development of small cities. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there are 454 cities in Ukraine, among which two with special status ( Kyiv and Sevastopol ). Rural populated places ( Ukrainian : сільські населені пункти ) or rural localities can refer to two different types of inhabited places: villages and rural settlements. The term selyshche ( селище , "settlement") used to have
368-400: The administrative territorial system of Ukraine. The term selysche is also used to some smaller populated places, while can be found within other administrative territorial subdivisions. Those settlements are implicitly known as rural settlements, while often presented simply as selysches . According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census there were 890 urban-type settlements in Ukraine. The designation
391-432: The fight with individual farming ( dekulakization campaign). Urban-type settlements in Ukraine were a type of populated place in Ukraine from 1925 until 2024, deriving from a Soviet invented term for a populated place with some degree of urbanization or in proximity to an urbanized area. In the Constitution of Ukraine urban settlement is mentioned simply as selysche (a settlement), which also adds another ambiguity to
414-502: The generic term hromada . The Constitution of Ukraine and some other laws, including the "Law on local self-governance", delegate certain rights and obligations for hromadas. Types of hromadas include cities, urban-type settlements , rural settlements , and villages. In his draft constitutional amendments of June 2014, President Petro Poroshenko proposed changing the administrative divisions of Ukraine , which he felt should include oblasts , raions and hromadas. On 12 June 2020
437-457: The names of places associated with Russian imperialism. In the law's explanatory note was stated this was "a ban on assigning geographic objects names that glorify, perpetuate, promote, or symbolize the occupying state." The Law of Ukraine of 28.07.2023 № 3285-IX "About the procedure for solving certain issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine" established the following terminology regarding populated places: In particular,
460-721: The needs of the community. The tasks can be twofold: Own high objectives include matters such as spatial harmony, real estate management, environmental protection and nature conservation, water management , country roads, public streets, bridges, squares and traffic systems, water supply systems and source, the sewage system, removal of urban waste, water treatment, maintenance of cleanliness and order, sanitary facilities, dumps and council waste, supply of electric and thermal energy and gas, public transport, health care, welfare, care homes, subsidised housing, public education, cultural facilities including public libraries and other cultural institutions, historic monuments conservation and protection,
483-480: The self-government initiatives and cooperation within the commune including with non-governmental organizations, interaction with regional communities from other countries, etc. Commissioned tasks cover the remaining public tasks resulting from legitimate needs of the state, commissioned by central government for the units of local government to implement. The tasks are handed over on the basis of statutory by-laws, charters and regulations, or by way of agreements between
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#1733086139240506-453: The sports facilities and tourism including recreational grounds and devices, marketplaces and covered markets, green spaces and public parks, communal graveyards, public order and safety, fire and flood protection with equipment maintenance and storage, maintaining objects and devices of the public utility and administrative buildings, pro-family policy including social support for pregnant women, medical and legal care, supporting and popularising
529-449: Was abolished in late January 2024 as part of the decommunization of Ukraine's settlement classification system. Hromada A hromada ( Ukrainian : територіальна громада , romanized : terytorialna hromada , lit. 'territorial community') is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine , similar to a municipality . It was established by the Government of Ukraine on 12 June 2020. A hromada
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