Myrhorod Raion (; translit.: ''Myrhorods'kyi 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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) 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 ...

of central

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. The raion's

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is the city of

Myrhorod Myrhorod (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the Capital city, administrative center of Myrhorod Raion. Myrhorod also hosts the administration of Myrhorod urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It is locate ...

. 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 Myrhorod Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Important rivers within the Myrhorodskyi Raion include the Psel and the Khorol. The raion was established on 3 July 1923, by splitting off Lubny Raion. The raion's current boundaries were established on January 8, 1966. An important village in the raion is Velyki Sorochyntsi, where the Sorochyntsi Fair has been held since the 1960s. On , writer

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

was born in Velyki Sorochyntsi. His short story " The Fair at Sorochyntsi" takes place in Velyki Sorochyntsi.

Administrative division

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 17

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

Hadiach Hadiach (, ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast in east-central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of . Hadiach is located on the Psel (river), Psel River. Population: Name In addition to the Ukrainian lan ...

, transferred from city of the oblast significance of Hadiach and Hadiach Raion; * Komyshnia settlement hromada with the administration in the

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of Komyshnia, retained from Myrhorod Raion; * Krasna Luka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Krasna Luka, transferred from Hadiach Raion; * Liutenka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Liutenka, transferred from Hadiach Raion; *

Lokhvytsia urban hromada Lokhvytsia (, ) is a city in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located on the banks of the . Lokhvytsia hosts the administration of Lokhvytsia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Name In addition ...

with the administration in the city of

Lokhvytsia Lokhvytsia (, ) is a city in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located on the banks of the . Lokhvytsia hosts the administration of Lokhvytsia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Name In addition ...

, transferred from Lokhvytsia Raion; * Myrhorod urban hromada with the administration in the city of

, transferred from city of the oblast significance of Myrhorod and retained from Myrhorod Raion; * Petrivka-Romenska rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Petrivka-Romenska, transferred from Hadiach Raion; * Romodan settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement Romodan, retained from Myrhorod Raion and transferred from Lubny Raion; * Sencha rural hromada with the administration in the selo of

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, transferred from Lokhvytsia Raion; * Serhiivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Serhiivka, transferred from Hadiach Raion; * Velyki Budyshcha rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Velyki Budyshcha, transferred from Hadiach Raion; * Velyki Sorochyntsi rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Velyki Sorochyntsi, retained from Myrhorod Raion. * Zavodske urban hromada with the administration in the city of Zavodske, transferred from Lokhvytsia Raion.

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas, * Komyshnia settlement hromada with the administration in Komyshnia; * Romodan settlement hromada with the administration in Romodan; * Velyki Sorochyntsi rural hromada with the administration in Velyki Sorochyntsi.

Settlements

References

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