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Vyshhorod Raion
Vyshhorod Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Vyshhorod. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Vyshhorod Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Ivankiv and Poliske Raions, as well as the cities of Slavutych and Vyshhorod, which were previously incorporated as cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Vyshhorod Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Description The raion was created on April 12, 1973, from territories of Ivankiv Raion and Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion. The raion is located around the Kyiv Reservoir. Its administrative center is at the southern edge of the territory. Before 2020, the raion bordered four other raions of Kyiv Oblast and two other regions of Ukraine – the city of Kyiv and Chernihiv Oblast. T ...
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Ivankiv Raion
Ivankiv Raion () was a raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast in Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Ivankiv. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. With that change, the area of Ivankiv Raion was merged into Vyshhorod Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was Overview The raion expanded in 1986 after the disestablishment of the Chernobyl Raion due to the Chernobyl disaster. Henceforth Ivankiv Raion administered the former territory of the depopulated region that is majorly part of the zone of alienation and supervised by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Subdivisions At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of one hromada, Ivankiv settlement hromada with the administration in Ivankiv. Gallery See also *Pripyat Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, locat ...
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Raions Of Ukraine
A raion (; ), often translated as district, is the second-level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged. On 17 July 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) approved an administrative reform to merge most of the 490 raions, along with the "City of regional significance (Ukraine), cities of regional significance", which were previously outside the raions, into just 136 reformed raions. Most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare) were taken over by new hromadas, the subdivisions of raions.Where did 354 ...
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Slavutych
Slavutych (, ) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, purpose-built for the evacuated personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 disaster that occurred near the city of Pripyat. Geographically located within Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Slavutych is administratively subordinated to the Kyiv Oblast and is part of Vyshhorod Raion. It is coterminous with Slavutych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 2021 the city had a population of In 2024, about 20,000 people live there. Geography File:Slawutytsch (Ukraine).png, Transportation connection between Slavutych and Pripyat (map is in German) File:Chernigovskiy rayon 2020.svg, Chernihiv Raion within Chernihiv Oblast. The non-shaded orange dot at the western edge of the raion indicates the city of Slavutych. Slavutych is situated on the left bank of the Dnieper River, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Chernihiv, 45 kilometers (30 miles) from the city of Pripyat (city), Pripyat, 50 kilomet ...
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Mezhyhirya Residence
The Mezhyhirya Residence (, ) is an estate in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych lived when he was Prime Minister of Ukraine, Prime Minister and then President of Ukraine and is now a museum displaying Yanukovych's luxurious lifestyle.Ukraine: Former President Viktor Yanukovych's Palatial Residence in Mezhyhirya Opens as Museum
International Business Times (November 17, 2014)

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Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010. Yanukovych was removed from the presidency in the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, which followed months of protests against him. Since then, he has lived in exile in Russia. Yanukovych was a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions. Before entering national politics, Yanukovych was the Governor of his native Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002. He was simultaneously the Chairman of the oblast's legislature from 1999 to 2001. He first ran for president in the 2004 election, where he was declared the winner against Viktor Yushchenko. However, allegations of electoral fraud and voter intimidation caused widespread protests, in what became known as the Orange Revolution. The Ukrainian Supr ...
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President Of Ukraine
The president of Ukraine (, ) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, conducts negotiations and concludes international treaties. The president is direct election, directly elected by the Ukrainian nationality law, citizens of Ukraine for a five-year term of office (whether the Ukrainian presidential elections, presidential election is early or scheduled), limited to two terms consecutively. The president's official residence is the Mariinskyi Palace, located in the Pecherskyi District, Pechersk district of the capital Kyiv. Other official residences include the House with Chimaeras and the House of the Weeping Widow, which are used for official visits by foreign representatives. The Office of the President of Ukraine, unofficially known as "Bankova" in reference to the street it is located on, serves as the presidential office, advising the president in the domestic ...
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Kozelets Raion
Kozelets Raion (, ) was one of the 22 administrative raions (a ''district'') of Chernihiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. Its administrative center was located at the urban-type settlement of Kozelets. Its population was 61,636 in the 2001 Ukrainian Census. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Kozelets Raion was merged into Chernihiv Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was Geography Kozelets Raion was located in the southwestern part of the Chernihiv Oblast, corresponding to the modern-day boundaries of the Polissia historical regions. To its west and south, it bordered upon Vyshhorod and Brovary Raions of Kyiv Oblast. Its total area constituted , constituting 8.3 percent of the total area of Chernihiv Oblast. History As part of a full-scale administrative reorganization of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Oster Raion was created o ...
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Brovary Raion
Brovary Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center is the town of Brovary. Its population is History In 1923, Brovary Raion was established with its center in Brovary. In 1930, the raion was reworked, with its center moved to Velyka Dymerka. In 1937, this change was undone, and the center was moved back to Brovary. Brovary was designated a city of regional significance (Ukraine), city of oblast significance in 1972 - meaning that while Brovary still served as the administrative center of Brovary Raion, it was no longer subordinated to it, instead being directly subordinated to the government of Kyiv Oblast. This slightly decreased the territory of the raion. On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Brovary Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Baryshivka Raion, Baryshivka and Zghurivka Raions, as well a ...
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Obolon Raion
Obolonskyi District is an urban district of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Obolonskyi District encompasses territories far beyond of its historical neighborhood sharing the same name. It was formed on 3 March 1975 and initially called as Minskyi District. In 2001 it was renamed after its historical neighborhood. Its current population is 290,000 inhabitants. Overview The name of the district ''Obolon'' comes from the Old- Ukrainian word ''оболонь'' → ''болонь'' → ''болоньє'' (''obolon' '' → ''bolon' '' → ''bolon'ye''), which roughly translates as "flood plain" or an area that is being engulfed by water. During Soviet rule of Ukraine, Kyiv had 14 administrative districts. In the early 21st century, a new law was passed, and the city's administrative division was reorganized into 10 districts with different borders and new names. Therefore, newer Obolonskyi District encompasses the territories of the former Minskyi District (based on Minskyi Masyv ne ...
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Borodianka Raion
Borodianka Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Borodianka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Borodianka Raion was merged into the newly created Bucha Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was . Subdivisions At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three hromadas, * Borodianka settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Borodianka; * Nemishaieve settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Nemishaieve Nemishaieve () (formerly Shevchenkove from 1917–1928; ) is a rural settlement in Bucha Raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. Nemishaieve hosts the administration of Nemishaieve settlement hromada, one of the hrom ...; * Piskivka settlement hromada with t ...
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Chernobyl Raion
Chernobyl Raion () or Chornobyl Raion () was a raion in the Soviet Union located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was one of 26 administrative raions (districts) of Kyiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. After the Chernobyl disaster, the majority of the raion was contaminated, and many of its populated places were included into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is an officially designated exclusion area around the site of the disaster. Geography The Chernobyl Raion was located in the northern portion of Kyiv Oblast, at the time an administrative portion of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. To the raion's east, it bordered upon the Kyiv Reservoir; to its south, the Vyshhorod Raion; to its southwest, the Ivankiv Raion; and to its west, the Poliske Raion, significant portions of which also suffered due to the Chernobyl disaster. Today, the territory of the former raion is administratively part of the Vyshhorod RaionDe facto the area of the former raion is loc ...
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Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast (), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv. There are 1,511 settlements in the oblast, with a total population of Geography The total area of the province is around 31,900 km². On the west, the oblast is bordered by the Kyiv Reservoir of the Dnieper River and Kyiv Oblast, which has a enclave known as Slavutych, which was created from Chernihiv Oblast for the inhabitants of Chernobyl following the Chernobyl disaster. It is bordered by Sumy Oblast to the east and Poltava Oblast to the south. The northern border of the oblast is part of Ukraine's international border abutting Belarus's Gomel Region in the north-west and the Russian Bryansk Oblast in the north-east, respectively. The oblast is bisected into northern and southern sections by the Desna River, which enters the Dnieper just north of t ...
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