Kharkov region

The district is located in the north of the Kharkov region .

Kharkiv , the administrative, cultural and economic center of the region, surrounds the city from the south, west and east.

The Kharkov region occupies a favorable economic and geographical position and is part of the suburban zone of Kharkov .

In the north, the region borders on the Belgorod region of Russia , in the east with Volchansky and Chuguevsky districts, in the south with Novovodolazhsky and Zmievsky , in the west with Dergachevsky and Valkovsky districts of Kharkov region .

Administratively, the district is divided into 2 city, 14 village and 14 village councils, which are subordinate to 109 settlements: 2 cities, 14 villages, 93 villages.

The main rivers are Lopan , Kharkov , Udy .

On March 7, 1923, the Government of the Ukrainian SSR adopted a new system of administrative division of the republic. Counties and parishes were replaced by districts and counties. In the Kharkov province, instead of 10 counties, 5 districts were created, instead of 227 volosts - 77 districts, including Lyubotinsky, Kharkiv, Lipetsk, Tsirkunovsky, Merefyansky and Korotichansky.

For forty years, the territory of the district has undergone administrative-territorial changes 5 times.

Within the modern borders, the Kharkov district was formed, according to the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR of January 4, 1965 with the administrative center in Kharkov .

The population of the district is 182.7 thousand people ^[2] , which is 6.46% of the population of the region (1st place among the regions), including about 122 thousand people living in urban conditions. In total, there are 109 settlements.

The area includes ^[3] :

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Settlements

Eliminated Settlements

In the Kharkov region, 85 political parties are registered and have local representation. ^[four]

In the Kharkiv District Council of the VII convocation of 42 deputies from the following parties: ^[5]

• Political Party VIDRODZHENNYA - 13 deputies,
• Political Party “PETR POWDER BLOCK“ SOLIDARNIST ”- 10 deputies,
• Political Party "Our Land" - seven deputies,
• Political Party "Obdnannya" SAMOPOMICH "- four deputies,
• Political party "UKRAINIAN OBDEDNATNAYA PATRIOTIV - UKROP" - three deputies,
• Political party "All-Ukrainian Revolution" Fatherland "- two deputies,
• The Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko - two deputies,

and one non-factional deputy.

The head of the district council Litvinenko Maxim Vladislavovich.

The district is part of the Kharkov industrial hub and has a developed diversified industry, which is represented by industrial enterprises of machine-building, light, food, building materials and other industries.

Far beyond the region, JSC “Merefyansky glass factory” is known for its products. Kuryazh Homebuilding Plant JSC, Nadia JSC for the production of polyvinyl chloride window blocks, Rogan Cardboard Factory JSC, Santekhstroydetal JSC, Opora JSC, Merefyansky Mechanical Plant, Artyomovsky Distillery, etc.

An important sector of the economy of the region is agriculture. Agricultural land occupied - 100.5 hectares, agricultural land - 103771 hectares, under arable land - 71187 hectares. In the agricultural sector of the Kharkiv region, 38 agricultural enterprises of various patterns of ownership operate, as well as 183 farms (of which 13, which have land over 100 hectares) and a number of small subsidiary farms, as well as enterprises: Agrotechservice, Agroplemservice "," Agricultural chemistry ", a workshop for the production of food products - oils, flour, cereals, sausages, etc.

There are three research institutes in the region: the Institute of Vegetable and Melon Growing, the Institute of Livestock and the Institute of Sericulture of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

An important place in agricultural production is occupied by suburban farming; The region specializes in animal husbandry, poultry farming, vegetable growing, grain production and gardening.

The territory of the district is saturated with railways and roads, pipelines. The total length of gas pipelines is 1,451.53 km, 72,256 households are gasified. The length of roads is 1372.9 km, including with hard surfaces - 598.2 km. Such important highways as M-18 ( E 105 ) Moscow - Simferopol , M-03 ( E 40 , E 50 ) Kiev - Kharkov pass through the territory.

The history of the area is closely connected with the names of famous people. Here lived and worked the ataman of the Zaporizhzhya Sich - Ivan Sirko, Ukrainian philosopher G. S. Skovorod , historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, writer D. I. Yavornitsky , sculptor and artist E. A. Lansere , the first national teacher of Ukraine P. V. Schepkin, singer K. I. Shulzhenko , Ukrainian writer, folklorist, ethnographer, musician G.M. Khotkevich .

There are 137 historical and cultural monuments of which are state registered in the Kharkov region:

• historical monuments - 99
• monuments of art - 4
• architectural monuments - 10
• monuments of archeology - 24.

In 77 mass and 36 solitary graves, 14,964 dead soldiers of the Great Patriotic War rest. Of the dead, 5745 names are known and perpetuated.

• Information on the website of the regional administration
• The district registration card on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)