Zaporizhzhia Municipality

The Zaporizhzhia Municipality (Ukrainian: Запорізька міська рада, Zaporiz’ka mis’ka rada; officially, Zaporizhzhia City Council) is a local government area that governs Zaporizhzhia, a city of regional significance located in southern Ukraine.[4] Its population was 810,620 in the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[4]

Zaporizhzhia Municipality

Запорізька міська рада
City council
Top: Preobrazhenskyi Bridge over Dnipro River; Sobornyi Avenue, Middle: Khortytsia Island, Bottom: Slavutych Arena; Zaporizhzhia Oblast Administration building
Zaporizhzhia
Location of Zaporizhzhia in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Coordinates: 47°50′16″N 35°08′18″E
Country Ukraine
ProvinceZaporizhzhia Oblast
Admin. centerZaporizhzhia
Composition
Government
 • MayorVolodymyr Buriak[1] (Independent)[2]
Area
 • Total240 km2 (90 sq mi)
Elevation93 m (305 ft)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total810,620
 • Density3,400/km2 (8,700/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
69000-499
Area code+380 612
KOATUU2310100000
Websitehttp://rada.gov.ua/

Government

The Zaporizhzhia Municipality (and the city of Zaporizhzhia itself), is governed by a mayor, who is elected every four years in local Ukrainian elections. The last election took place in 2015, and saw the election of independent candidate Volodymyr Buriak as mayor.[1][2]

The municipality's legislative branch is the city council, which consists of 90 locally-elected deputies.[5]

Administrative divisions

The Zaporizhzhia Municipality contains a total of seven administrative raions (districts):[6]

The former urban-type settlement of Teplychne (Ukrainian: Тепличне) was previously a settlement council and an administrative unit of the Shevchenko Raion, although it was annexed to Zaporizhzhia's city limits based on a resolution of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council dated 23 April 2009.[7]

References
  1. (in Ukrainian) CVU Chairman: Klitschko won the most votes among the mayors of cities, Espreso TV (18 November 2015)
  2. SUMMARY: Klitschko in the lead of Kyiv mayoral election, Filatov likely to become Dnipropetrovsk mayor – exit polls, Interfax-Ukraine (16 November 2015)
  3. "Zaporizhzhia (Zaporizhzhia Oblast)". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  4. "City of Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  5. "Zaporizhzhia City Council". Local elections 2010 (in Ukrainian). Central Election Commission of Ukraine. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  6. "City of Zaporizhzhia (raions of cities)". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  7. "Card of the resolution". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  • "Main". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Site of the Zaporizhzhia City Government. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  • Media related to Zaporizhia at Wikimedia Commons
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