Boryspil Raion () is an administrative raion (

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) in east-central

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast (, ), also called Kyivshchyna (, ), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, which is administered as a city with special sta ...

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. Its

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is the city of

Boryspil Boryspil (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Boryspil Raion in Kyiv Oblast (region) in northern and central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Boryspil urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population was estimate ...

. 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 and

Yahotyn Raion Yahotyn Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the town of Yahotyn. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of K ...

s, as well as the cities of Boryspil and

Pereiaslav Pereiaslav is a historical town in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located near the confluence of the Alta and Trubizh rivers some southeast of the capital Kyiv. It was one of the key regional centers of power during the ...

, 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 km². On the raion's southern border flows the

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(''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

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, which provides electric supply to nearby areas. Forests cover about 150 km² of the raion's 146 km² area.

Demographics

The Boryspil raion's total population is 53,483, which includes 23,400 males, and 30,080 females. The number of

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s totals 16,300, about 33.6% of the total population of the raion. The density of the raion's population is 364 p/km². The national ethnic composition is:

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(95.2%),

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(3.8%),

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(0.3%) and

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(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

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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''; ), 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

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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.

References

External links

kyiv-obl.gov.ua
- Information about the Boryspil raion
Verkhovna Rada website
- Administrative divisions of the Boryspil raion {{Authority control Raions of Kyiv Oblast Kyiv metropolitan area 1923 establishments in Ukraine