Izium 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 ...

(district) in

Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine. Kharkiv borders Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the southeast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the southwest, Poltava Oblast to the w ...

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. Its administrative center is the city of

Izium Izium or Izyum (, ; ) is a city on the Donets River in Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine that serves as the administrative center of Izium Raion and Izium urban hromada. It is about southeast of the city of Kharkiv, the oblast's administrative cen ...

. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Izium Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions –

Balakliia Balakliia or Balakliya (, ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in the Izium Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine, on the northeast side of the Siverskyi Donets river close to where it is joined by the , which runs through the town. It is an ...

, Barvinkove, and

Borova Raion Borova Raion () was a raion (district) in Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Borova. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the num ...

s – and the city of Izium, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Izium Raion. The pre-reform January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 8

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

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

, transferred from Balakliia Raion; * Barvinkove urban hromada with the administration in the city of Barvinkove, transferred from Barvinkove Raion; * Borova settlement hromada with the administration in the

rural settlement The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. ...

of Borova, transferred from Borova Raion; * Donets settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of

Donets The Seversky Donets () or Siverskyi Donets (), usually simply called the Donets (), is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It originates in the Central Russian Upland, north of Belgorod, flows south-east through Ukraine (Kharkiv ...

, transferred from Balakliia Raion; *

Izium urban hromada Izium or Izyum (, ; ) is a city on the Donets River in Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine that serves as the administrative center of Izium Raion and Izium urban hromada. It is about southeast of the city of Kharkiv, the oblast's administrative cen ...

with the administration in the city of

, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Izium; * Kunie rural hromada with the administration in the

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

of Kunie, retained from Izium Raion; * Oskil rural hromada with the administration in the village of

Oskil The Oskil or Oskol (; ) is a south-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine. It arises roughly between Kursk and Voronezh and flows south to join the Siverskyi Donets which flows southeast to join the Don. It is long, with a drainage basin of .

, retained from Izium Raion; * Savyntsi settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Savyntsi, transferred from Balakliia Raion.

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of two hromadas: * Kunie rural hromada with the administration in Kunie; * Oskil rural hromada with the administration in Oskil.

Silrada

References

Raions of Kharkiv Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine {{Authority control