This article will be permanently flagged as inappropriate and made unaccessible to everyone. Are you certain this article is inappropriate? Excessive Violence Sexual Content Political / Social
Email Address:
Article Id: WHEBN0036564506 Reproduction Date:
City of regional significance is a city municipality that is designated as a separate district within its region (i.e. oblast, Crimea). In Crimea, these cities are referred to as cities of republican significance, while in regular oblasts those municipalities are referred to as cities of oblast significance (Ukrainian: Місто обласного значення, Misto oblasnoho znachennya). The designation of regional significance was created with the introduction of oblasts back in 1932.
Such city municipality is complex and usually combines the city proper as well as the adjacent populated places. The city of regional (oblast) significance is governed by a city council known as mis'krada which is chaired by a mayor. There are instances where a municipality may include only the city alone (city proper), while in others instances a municipality may consists of its own subdivisions such as districts in city, similarly to the cities with special status or even other cities which carry designation of cities of district significance.
Each region has at least one city of regional significance as its Supreme Council of Ukraine – Verkhovna Rada.
The city can be divided into districts at the city's authorities' discretion. Along with raions of a region, the cities of regional significance are the second level of administrative-territorial division of Ukraine. Beside having districts, the city can be divided into various municipal councils (rada, often considered its extended metropolitan area and suburbs) such as smaller city councils, town councils, or rural councils. Additionally, a city of regional significance can simply be composed of one settlement itself.
In 2012, there were 178 cities of regional significance across the different regions of Ukraine, ranging from the Donetsk Region, which has the highest number of cities at 28, to the Ternopil Region, which has only one, Ternopil. On average there are seven cities in each oblast or Crimea.
* - Not shown on map
Kiev, Russia, Sevastopol, Ukrainian language, Ukrainians
Poland, Kiev, Ukraine, Russia, Ternopil Oblast
Donetsk Oblast, World War II, Ukrainian language, Donetsk, Ukraine
Ukraine, Cherkasy Oblast, Poland, Odessa, Ukrainians
Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, Cherkasy, City of regional significance (Ukraine), Ukrainian language
Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, Chernivtsi, Ukrainian language, City of regional significance (Ukraine)
Russia, Poltava Oblast, Germany, Poland, Ukraine