Shevchenkivskyi District, Kharkiv

Shevchenkivskyi District (Ukrainian: Шевченківський район) is urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.[1]

Shevchenkivskyi District

Шевченківський район
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
Area
  Total62 km2 (24 sq mi)
Population
  Total231,641
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
  1. Kholodnohirskyi District
  2. Shevchenkivskyi District
  3. Kyivskyi District
  4. Moskovskyi District
  5. Nemyshlyanskyi District
  6. Industrialnyi District
  7. Slobidskyi District
  8. Osnovianskyi District
  9. Novobavarskyi District

The district was created in 1932 out of parts of Ivano-Lysohirskyi and Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi districts. It was named as Dzerzhynskyi after the head of Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission). It was renamed to its current name in February 2016 to comply with decommunization laws.[1]

Places

  • Universytetska hirka
  • Derzhprom (Gosprom)
  • Pavlivka
  • Shatylivka
  • Sokolnyky
  • Pavlove Pole
  • Oleksiivka
  • Tykhi vulytsi


References


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