Poltava Oblast
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| Poltava Oblast Полтавська область Poltavs’ka oblast’ |
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| Nickname: Полтавщина (Ukrainian) Poltavshchyna (transliteration) |
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 Location of Poltava Oblast (red) on the map of Ukraine (blue). |
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| Administrative center | Poltava | ||||
| Largest cities | |||||
| Governor | Valeriy Asadchev (?) | ||||
| Oblast council | |||||
| – Chairman | ? (?) | ||||
| – № of seats | ? | ||||
| Established | |||||
| Subdivisions | |||||
| – Raions | 25 | ||||
| – Cities of oblast subordinance | 5 | ||||
| – Cities (total) | 15 | ||||
| – Towns | 21 | ||||
| – Villages | 1,831 | ||||
| Area | Ranked 6th | ||||
| – Total | 28,748 km² | ||||
| – Land | ? km² | ||||
| – Water | ? (?%) | ||||
| Population | Ranked 12th | ||||
| – Total (2006) | 1,544,085 | ||||
| – Density | 55 p/ km² | ||||
| – Average salary | UAH ? (?%) | ||||
| Time zone | EET +2 | ||||
| – Summer (DST) | EEST +3 | ||||
| Abbreviations | |||||
| – Postal code | 36000-38999 | ||||
| – ISO 3166-2 | UA-53 | ||||
| – FIPS 10-4 | UP18 | ||||
| – Telephone code | +380-53 | ||||
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| Official website | www.obladmin.poltava.ua | ||||
| Verkhovna Rada site | |||||
Poltava Oblast (Ukrainian: Полтавська область, translit. Poltavs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Poltavshchyna - Ukrainian: Полтавщина) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.
Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.
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[edit] Geography
Poltava Oblast is situated in the central part of Ukraine. It has an area of 28,800 km². The oblast’ borders upon Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovs’k, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy and Kyiv regions.
[edit] Points of interest
The following historic-cultural sites were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.
- Hohol preserve-museum
- Kotliarevsky villa
- Mykolaivska Church
- Polatava ethnical museum
- Cross-Erecting monastery
[edit] Demographics
As of 2005-05-01 its population is 1,584,446, and its population density is 59 people on 1 km².
[edit] Economy
[edit] Industry
The oblast’ is a center of Ukraine's oil and natural gas industry, with many wells and pipelines situated here. There is a major oil refinery plant in the city of Krementchuk. Important iron ore processing facilities also present. In general there are 374 large industrial organization and 618 small industrial organizations.
[edit] Agriculture
In 1999 the gross grain yield was about 1452,9 thousand tons, sugar beets – 1002,900 tons, sunflower seeds – 166,200 tons, potatoes – 279,900 tons. The oblast also produced 120,500 tons of meat, 645,900 tons of milk and 423,200,00 eggs. At the beginning of 1999 there were 1,311 registered farms in the region.
[edit] Administrative divisions
The oblast is divided into 25 districts, 15 cities including 5 settlements of city estate, 21 urban villages, and 1862 villages.
The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Poltava Oblast’:
- Administrative Center - 1 (Poltava)
- Raions — 25;
- City raions — 5;
- Settlements — 1526, including:
- Villages — 1,831;
- Cities/Towns — 35, including:
- Urban-type settlement — 21;
- Cities — 15, including:
- Cities of oblast' subordinance — 7;
- Cities of raion subordinance — 8;
- Selsovets — 384.
The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Poltava Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast’ is the Poltava Oblast’ Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.
[edit] Nomenclature
Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr). The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Poltava is the center of the Poltavs’ka oblast’ (Poltava Oblast). Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Poltava Oblast, Poltavshchyna.
[edit] External links
- State Administration of Poltava Region - official site (Ukrainian)
- Information Card of the Region - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- In the Land of Poltavshchyna
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