Kremenchuk Raion () is a

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(

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) in

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast (), also referred to as Poltavshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was par ...

, central Ukraine. The raion's

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is the city of

Kremenchuk Kremenchuk (; , , also spelt Kremenchug, ) is an industrial city in central Ukraine which stands on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. The city serves as the administrative center of Kremenchuk Raion and Kremenchuk urban hromada within ...

. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Kremenchuk Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Important rivers within the Kremenchutskyi Raion include the Psel and the

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. The raion was established in 1939.

Administrative division

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 12

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s: * Hlobyne urban hromada with the administration in the city of Hlobyne, transferred from Hlobyne Raion; * Hradyzk settlement hromada with the administration in the

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of Hradyzk, transferred from Hlobyne Raion; * Horishni Plavni urban hromada with the administration in the city of

Horishni Plavni Horishni Plavni (, ), before 2016 known as Komsomolsk-na-Dnipri () or simply Komsomolsk (), is a purpose-built mining city in central Ukraine, located on the left bank of the Dnieper, in Kremenchuk Raion of Poltava Oblast, practically conurba ...

, transferred from city of the oblast significance of Horishni Plavni and retained from Kremenchuk Raion; * Kamiani Potoky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Kamiani Potoky, retained from Kremenchuk Raion; * Kozelshchyna settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Kozelshchyna, transferred from Kozelshchyna Raion; * Kremenchuk urban hromada with the administration in the city of

, transferred from city of the oblast significance of Kremenchuk and retained from Kremenchuk Raion; * Nova Haleshchyna settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Nova Haleshchyna, transferred from Kozelshchyna Raion; * Omelnyk rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Omelnyk, retained from Kremenchuk Raion; * Pishchane rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Pishchane, retained from Kremenchuk Raion; * Pryshyb rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Pryshyb, retained from Kremenchuk Raion.

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas, * Kamiani Potoky rural hromada with the administration in Kamiani Potoky; * Omelnyk rural hromada with the administration in Omelnyk; * Pishchane rural hromada with the administration in Pishchane; * Pryshyb rural hromada with the administration in Pryshyb.

Settlements

References

{{Authority control Raions of Poltava Oblast Kremenchuk 1939 establishments in Ukraine