Kupiansk Raion () is a

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(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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. The administrative center of the raion is the city of

Kupiansk Kupiansk or Kupyansk (, ; , ) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kupiansk Raion. It is also an important railroad junction for the oblast. Kupiansk hosts the administration of Kupiansk urban hromada, ...

. 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 Kupiansk Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions,

Dvorichna Dvorichna (, ) is a rural settlement in Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dvorichna settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the town was captured by Ru ...

, Shevchenkove, and

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

s, as well as the city of Kupiansk, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kupiansk Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was It is approximately 120 kilometers to the east of Kharkiv and 40 kilometers south of the border with

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Settlements

* Tabaivka

Subdivisions

Current

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

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s: *

Dvorichna settlement hromada The Dvorichna settlement hromada (, ) is a hromada in the Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. The hromada was created on 12 June 2020, and is centrally administered by the urban-type settlement of Dvorichna, being the local government for 5 ...

with the administration in the

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, transferred from Dvorichna Raion; * Kindrashivka 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 Kindrashivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion; *

Kupiansk urban hromada Kupiansk or Kupyansk (, ; , ) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kupiansk Raion. It is also an important railroad junction for the oblast. Kupiansk hosts the administration of Kupiansk urban hromada, ...

with the administration in the city of

, transferred from

Kupiansk Municipality Kupiansk or Kupyansk (, ; , ) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kupiansk Raion. It is also an important railroad junction for the oblast. Kupiansk hosts the administration of Kupiansk urban hromada, o ...

; * Kurylivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Kurylivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion; * Petropavlivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Petropavlivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion; * Shevchenkove settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Shevchenkove, transferred from Shevchenkove Raion; * Velykyi Burluk settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of

Velykyi Burluk Velykyi Burluk () is a rural settlement in Ukraine, in Kupiansk Raion of Kharkiv Oblast. It hosts the administration of Velykyi Burluk settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of the settlement is . The settlement was ...

, transferred from Velykyi Burluk Raion; * Vilkhuvatka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Vilkhuvatka, transferred from Velykyi Burluk Raion.

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas: * Kindrashivka rural hromada with the administration in Kindrashivka; * Kurylivka rural hromada with the administration in Kurylivka; * Petropavlivka rural hromada with the administration in Petropavlivka.

Notable people

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, Ilija, or Illia ( , or ; ; ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/ Jah." It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative (Ilía) of the Greek Eli ...

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Vladimir Dudintsev Vladimir Dimitrievich Dudintsev (, ; 29 July 1918 – 23 July 1998) was a Soviet writer who gained fame for his 1956 novel, '' Not by Bread Alone'', published at the time of the Khrushchev Thaw. Dudintsev, the son of a member of the gentry, atte ...

, Ukrainian-born Russian writer

References

External links

Kupensky Youth Network
{{Authority control Raions of Kharkiv Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine