Boryspil Raion ( uk, Бориспільський район,
translit.
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: ''Boryspil's'kyi raion'') is an
administrative raion (
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
) in east-central
Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...
of
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...
. Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, L ...
is the city of
Boryspil. Population: .
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 Boryspil Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions,
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi
Pereiaslav ( uk, Перея́слав, translit=Pereiaslav, yi, פּרעיאַסלעוו, Periyoslov) is a historical city in the Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) of central Ukraine, located near the confluence of Alta and Trubizh river ...
and
Yahotyn Raions, as well as the cities of Boryspil and
Pereiaslav
Pereiaslav ( uk, Перея́слав, translit=Pereiaslav, yi, פּרעיאַסלעוו, Periyoslov) is a historical city in the Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) of central Ukraine, located near the confluence of Alta and Trubizh rivers ...
, which were previously incorporated as
cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Boryspil Raion.
The area of the raion before the reform was . The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was
Geography
The Boryspil raion is located in the east-central area of the Kyiv Oblast, and has a total area of 146 km
2.
On the raion's southern border flows the
Dnieper River
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukrain ...
(''Dnipro''). Near the river, the raion's lowest elevation points are located. Other rivers that flow through the raion include: the
left tributaries of the Dnieper: Pavlivka, Mlen, Ikva, and the right tributaries of the
Trubizh River: Bochechky, Karan', Vohnyscha, Krasylivka, Al'ta, and Il'tytsia. All of the raion's rivers flow through the low-elevation territory, making all of the rivers flow more slowly. The rivers take their sources from winter snowfalls and seasonal rains. On the southernmost border of the raion is the
Kaniv Reservoir
The Kaniv Reservoir ( uk, Канівське водосховище, ) is a water reservoir located on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Named after the city of Kaniv, it covers a total area of 675 square kilometers within the Cherkasy and Kyiv Obl ...
, which provides electric supply to nearby areas.
Forests cover about 150 km
2 of the raion's 146 km
2 area.
Demographics
The Boryspil raion's total population is 53,483, which includes 23,400 males, and 30,080 females. The number of
pensioner
A pensioner is a person who receives a pension, most commonly because of retirement from the workforce. This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom (along with OAP, initialism of old-age pensioner), Ireland and Australia where someone of p ...
s totals 16,300, about 33.6% of the total population of the raion. The density of the raion's population is 364 p/km
2.
The national ethnic composition is:
Ukrainians
Ukrainians ( uk, Українці, Ukraintsi, ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. They are the seventh-largest nation in Europe. The native language of the Ukrainians is Ukrainian. The majority of Ukrainians are Eastern Or ...
(''95.2 %''),
Russians
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(''0.3 %'') and
Moldovans
Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians ( ro, moldoveni , Moldovan Cyrillic: молдовень), are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and the largest ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (75.1% of the population as of 2014) and a si ...
(''0.1 %'').
Culture
Within the Boryspil raion operates a musical school for children (in the village of ''Schastlyve''), a school of art (in the village of ''Velyka Oleksandrivka'') Also, a couple of educational schools operate on the territory of the raion:
* Institute of
Cloning
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical or virtually identical DNA, either by natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction. In the field of biotechnology, c ...
and Genetics of Animals (''Ukrainian Academy of Agriculture'');
* Central science-laboratory for experiments with water and ground soil (''Institute of Hydrotechno, UAAN'').
A festival (''Argo'' and ''Kyiv's fall''; russian: Агро и Киевская осень), is held two times a year within the village of ''Chubynske''. Within the village of ''Revne'', is a reserved retirement village for veterans of wars. In addition, living quarters are reserved for children of homeless children and children of poor families in the villages of ''Revne'', ''Abaievykh'', and ''Stare''.
Subdivisions
Current
After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 11
hromadas:
*
Boryspil urban hromada, with the administration in the city of
Boryspil, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Boryspil;
*
Divychky rural hromada
Divychky rural hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast. Its administrative center is the village of Divychky.
It has an area of and a population of 4,367, as of 2020.
The hromada contains 7 settlements, which ...
with the administration in the
selo of
Divychky, transferred from Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion;
*
Hora rural hromada
Hora rural hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast. Its administrative center is the village of Hora.
It has an area of and a population of 6,179, as of 2020.
The hromada contains 4 settlements, which are all ...
with the administration in the selo of
Hora
Hora may refer to:
Companies
* Hora (company), a Romanian manufacturer of stringed musical instruments
People
* Hora (surname)
* Hora (musician), member of the Japanese duo Schwarz Stein
* Hora people, an indigenous people of Bolivia
Places
* ...
, retained from Boryspil Raion;
*
Pereiaslav urban hromada, with the administration in the city of
Pereiaslav
Pereiaslav ( uk, Перея́слав, translit=Pereiaslav, yi, פּרעיאַסלעוו, Periyoslov) is a historical city in the Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) of central Ukraine, located near the confluence of Alta and Trubizh rivers ...
, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Pereiaslav;
*
Prystolychna rural hromada with the administration in the selo of
Shchaslyve, retained from Boryspil Raion;
*
Studenyky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of
Studenyky, transferred from Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion;
*
Tashan rural hromada Tashan may refer to:
Geography Bahrain
*Tashan, Bahrain, village in Bahrain
China
*Mount Ta (Yantai) (塔山; pinyin: ''Tǎshān''), a tourist site in Zhifu District, Yantai, Shandong
*Tashan Township (塌山乡), a town in Kuancheng Manchu Auton ...
with the administration in the selo of
Tashan, transferred from Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion;
*
Tsybli rural hromada with the administration in the selo of
Tsybli, transferred from Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion;
*
Voronkiv rural hromada with the administration in the selo of
Voronkiv, retained from Boryspil Raion;
*
Yahotyn urban hromada with the administration in the city of
Yahotyn
Yahotyn () is a city in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast ( region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Yahotyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 2001, population was 23,659. The current population is
Until 18 July 2020, Yaho ...
, transferred from Yahotyn Raion;
*
Zolochiv rural hromada
Zolochivska rural hromada () is a hromada (community) of Ukraine, located in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast. Its administrative center is the village of Hnidyn. The hromada (community) is directly adjacent to the city of Kyiv by bordering on its ...
with the administration in the selo of
Hnidyn, retained from Boryspil Raion.
Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas,
* Hora rural hromada with the administration in Hora;
* Prystolychna rural hromada with the administration in Shchaslyve;
* Voronkiv rural hromada with the administration in Voronkiv;
* Zolochiv rural hromada with the administration in Hnidyn.
Previously, it consisted of 20 rural councils that contained 43 villages.
See also
*
Administrative divisions of Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast is subdivided into districts (''raions'') which are subdivided into territorial communities (''hromadas'').
Current
On 18 July 2020, the number of districts was reduced to seven. These are:
# Bila Tserkva (Білоцерківськи ...
*
Boryspil Airport
Boryspil International Airport ( uk, Міжнародний аеропорт «Бориспіль») is an international airport in Boryspil, east of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving 65% of its passenger ...
References
External links
kyiv-obl.gov.ua- Information about the Boryspil raion
Verkhovna Rada website- Administrative divisions of the Boryspil raion
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Raions of Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv metropolitan area
1923 establishments in Ukraine