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Obukhiv Raion

Obukhiv Raion (Ukrainian: Обухівський район, romanizedObukhivskyi raion) is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Obukhiv. Population: 227,209 (2022 estimate).

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Obukhiv Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Kaharlyk and Myronivka Raions, as well of Obukhiv Municipality and the cities of Vasylkiv and Rzhyshchiv, which were previously incorporated as cities of oblast significance, and parts of Bohuslav, Kyiv-Sviatoshyn, and Vasylkiv Raions, were merged into Obukhiv Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 35,278 (2020 est.).

Trypillia on the Dnieper River.

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 9 hromadas:

Obukhiv Raion subdivisions
Hromada (Community) Admin. center Population (2020) Transferred/Retained from
Bohuslav urban Bohuslav 25,821 Bohuslav Raion;
Feodosiivska rural Khodosivka 15,200 Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion;
Kaharlyk urban Kaharlyk 26,849 Kaharlyk Raion;
Kozyn settlement Kozyn 5,646
Myronivka urban Myronivka 32,037 Myronivka Raion;
Obukhiv urban Obukhiv 42,639 Obukhiv Municipality;
Rzhyshchiv urban Rzhyshchiv 14,288 city of oblast significance of Rzhyshchiv;
Ukrainka urban Ukrainka 20,806
Vasylkiv urban Vasylkiv 45,406 city of oblast significance of Vasylkiv.

Before 2020

Obukhiv Raion in Kyiv Oblast (1966-2020)

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of two hromadas,

  • Kozyn settlement hromada with the administration in Kozyn;
  • Ukrainka urban hromada with the administration in Ukrainka.