Drohobych Raion () is a

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...

(

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) of

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named ...

(

region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and ...

) of western Ukraine. Its

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Drohobych Drohobych ( ; ; ) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 it w ...

. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Drohobych Raion was significantly expanded.

Boryslav Boryslav (, ; ) is a city located on the Tysmenytsia (river), Tysmenytsia (a tributary of the Dniester), in Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast (Oblast, region) of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Boryslav urban hromada, one of the hroma ...

and

municipalities, as well as the city of

Truskavets Truskavets (, ; ) is a city in Drohobych Raion, western Ukraine's Lviv Oblast (region), near the border with Poland. It hosts the administration of Truskavets urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately Tru ...

, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance, were merged into Drohobych Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

History

In 2020, the district included the Lastivka (with the villages of Lastivka, Svydnyk and Korytyshche) and Holovske (with the villages of Holovske, Zubrytsia and Kryntyata) village councils of the Turka district and the Oriv (with the villages of Oriv and Zymivky) village council of the Skole district.

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 5

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s: * Boryslav urban hromada with the administration in the city of

, transferred from Boryslav Municipality; * Drohobych urban hromada with the administration in the city of

, transferred from Drohobych Municipality; * Medenychi settlement hromada with the administration in the

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of Medenychi, retained from Drohobych Raion; * Skhidnytsia settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of

Skhidnytsia Skhidnytsia (, ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Lviv Oblast, Western Ukraine. The settlement is part of Drohobych Raion and represented by the local Skhidnytsia Settlement Council. Skhidnytsia hosts the adm ...

, transferred from Boryslav Municipality; * Truskavets urban hromada with the administration in the city of

, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Truskavets.

Before 2020

Map of Lviv Oblast highlighting Drohobych Raion

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of one

, Medenychi settlement hromada with the administration in Medenychi.

Settlements

There are 82 villages, 3 rural settlements and 4 towns in Drohobych Raion.List of the viliges of the Drohobych Raion
/ref> The towns are: *

* Stebnyk *

The rural settlements: * Medenychi * Pidbuzh *

The villages () of Drohobych Raion include: * Biinychi * Bolekhivtsi * Bronytsia * Bykiv * Bystryi * Bystrytsia * Bystrytsia Hirska * Hlynne * Holovske * Hrushiv * Huta * Daliava * Derezhychi * Drobrohostiv * Dobrivliany * Dolishnii Luzhok * Dovhe * Dovhe * Horodkivka * Hrushiv * Khatky * Korosnytsia * Korytyshche * Kotovane * Kryntiata * Lastivka * Letnia * Litynia * Lishnia *

Maidan Maidan is an originally Persian word for a town square or public gathering place (Persian: ), adopted by various other languages: Urdu (''maidān''); Arabic (''maydān''); Turkish ; Georgian (''moedani''); Bangla ময়দান, meaning f ...

* Medenychi * Medvezha * Mykhailevychi * Modrychi * Mokriany * Monastyr Derezhytskyi * Monastyr Lishnianskyi * Nahuievychi * Nove Selo * Novoshychi * Novyi Kropyvnyk * Nyzhni Hai * Opaka * Opory * Oriv * Ortynychi * Pereprostynia * Pidmonastyrok * Pidsukhe * Popeli * Pochaievychi * Ranevychi * Ripchytsi *

Rivne Rivne ( ; , ) is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the Rivne Raion (district) within the oblast.

* Rybnyk * Rykhtychi * Roliv *

Rivne Rivne ( ; , ) is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the Rivne Raion (district) within the oblast.

* Selets * Smilna * Sniatynka * Solonske * Stanylia * Stare Selo * Staryi Kropyvnyk * Storona * Stupnytsia * Svydnyk * Tyniv * Ulychne * Uniatychi * Urizh * Verkhni Hai * Verkhniy Dorozhiv * Volia Yakubova * Voloshcha * Voroblevychi *

Vynnyky Vynnyky (, , ) is a small city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population was estimated to be History Since the mid-14th century, until the Partitions of Polan ...

* Yasenytsia-Silna * Zady * Zalokot * Zaluzhany *

Zhdanivka Zhdanivka or Zhdanovka (, ; ) is a small city in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The city has a population of The city is occupied by regular Russian and pro-Russian proxy forces since 2014. History Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separati ...

* Zubrytsia * Zymivky

External links

rajon.drohobych.com.ua
- Official website of the Drohobych Raion
Verkhovna Rada website
- Administrative divisions of the Drohobych Raion

References

{{Authority control Raions of Lviv Oblast 1959 establishments in Ukraine