Uman Raion
Native nameУманський район
Coordinates48°40′37″N 30°16′11.3″E
OblastCherkasy Oblast
Subdivisions12 hromadas
Admin. centerUman
GovernorIhor Myklashchuk
Unit prefMetric
Area total1394.7 km²
Population total247847
Population as of2022
Time zoneEET (UTC+02:00)
Time zone (DST)EEST (UTC+03:00)
Postal index083
Area code380-4744
WebsiteVerkhovna Rada website

Uman Raion (Ukrainian: Уманський район) is a raion (district) in the west of Cherkasy Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Uman. Population:

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Uman Raion was significantly expanded. Four abolished raions, Khrystynivka, Mankivka, Monastyryshche, and Zhashkiv Raions, as well as the city of Uman, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Uman Raion.[1][2] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 13 hromadas:[2]

On 12 August 2020, Sokolivka rural hromada was abolished and merged into Zhashkiv urban hromada, thus reducing the number of amalgamated hromadas in Uman Raion to 12.[8]

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas:[9]

  • Babanka settlement hromada with the administration in Babanka;
  • Dmytrushky rural hromada with the administration in Dmytrushky;
  • Ladyzhynka rural hromada with the administration in Ladyzhynka;
  • Palanka rural hromada with the administration in Palanka.

Settlements

The city of Uman is the administrative center of the Umanskyi Raion, but the city was not subordinate to the raion administration, but instead was directly subordinate to the oblast administration.

Before 2020, Uman Raion included 1 urban-type settlement and 52 rural localities. Some of the raion's localities were:

Ukraine's two the most famous granite deposits Starobabanske and Tanske are located in the raion. The first one in Stari Babany a few km north east of Uman and the second in the village of Tanske. Their granite production is widely exported.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ." (in Ukrainian). Голос України. 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  3. ^ "Жашківська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  4. ^ "Маньківська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  5. ^ "Христинївська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  6. ^ "Монастирищенська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  7. ^ "Уманская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  8. ^ "Про внесення змін у додаток до розпорядження Кабінету Міністрів України від 12 червня 2020 р. № 728" (in Ukrainian). Government of Ukraine. 12 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Уманська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.