Poltava Oblast

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.

Geography

Poltava Oblast is situated in the central part of Ukraine. Located on the left bank of Dnieper, Poltava region was part of the Cossack Hetmanate. It has an area of 28,800 km². The oblast borders upon Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy and Kyiv regions.

Points of interest

The following historic-cultural sites were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.

Gogol preserve-museum
Kotliarevsky villa
Mykolaivska Church
Poltava ethnical museum
Cross-Erecting monastery

Demographics

At 2005-05-01, its population was 1,584,446, and population density was 59 people per 1 km².

Age structure

0-14 years: 13.2%

(male 99,444/female 93,949)

15-64 years: 69.9%

(male 483,389/female 530,911)

65 years and over: 16.9%

(male 81,435/female 164,861) (2013 official)

Median age

total: 41.4 years

male: 38.0 years

female: 44.7 years

(2013 official)

Economy

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 Kremenchuk. Important iron ore processing facilities also present. In general there are 374 large industrial organization and 618 small industrial organizations.

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.

Administrative divisions

The oblast is divided into 25 districts, 5 cities, 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 — 5;
    - Cities of raion subordinance — 8;
Rural councils — 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.

Name	Ukrainian Name	Area (km²)	Population census 2015^[1]	Admin.center	Urban Population Only
Poltava	Полта́ва (місто)	103	293,945	Poltava (city)	293,945
Komsomolsk	Комсомо́льськ (місто)	34	54,701	Komsomolsk (city)	52,144
Kremenchuk	Кременчу́к (місто)	96	223,942	Kremenchuk (city)	223,942
Lubny	Лубни (місто)	46	46,820	Lubny (city)	46,820
Myrhorod	Миргород (місто)	20	40,440	Myrhorod (city)	40,440
Chornukhskyi Raion	Чорнухинський район	682	11,485	Chornukhy	2,581
Chutivskyi Raion	Чутівський район	861	22,976	Chutove	9,468
Dykanskyi Raion	Диканський район	679	18,993	Dykanka	7,804
Hadyatskyi Raion	Гадяцький район	1,595	29,767	Hadiach	24,005
Hlobynskyi Raion	Глобинський район	2,500	44,007	Hlobyne	16,182
Hrebinkivskyi Raion	Гребінківський район	595	22,589	Hrebinka	10,926
Karlivkyi Raion	Карлівський район	854	34,121	Karlivka	14,997
Khorolskyi Raion	Хорольський район	1,062	34,670	Khorol	13,304
Kobeliatskyi Raion	Кобеляцький район	1,823	42,419	Kobeliaky	14,982
Kotelvskyi Raion	Котелевський район	800	19,674	Kotelva	12,406
Kozelshchynskyi Raion	Козельщинський район	930	19,575	Kozelshchyna	5,981
Kremenchutskyi Raion	Кременчуцький район	1,200	39,699	Kremenchuk (city)	N/A *
Lokhvytskyi Raion	Лохвицький район	1,300	43,274	Lokhvytsia	20,187
Lubenskyi Raion	Лубенський район	1,378	31,983	Lubny (city)	N/A *
Mashivskyi Raion	Машівський район	889	19,609	Mashivka	3,815
Myrhorodskyi Raion	Миргородський район	1,540	32,115	Myrhorod (city)	N/A *
Novi Sanzharskyi Raion	Новосанжарський район	1,300	34,620	Novi Sanzhary	8,375
Orzhytskyi Raion	Оржицький район	1,000	24228	Orzhytsia	5,369
Poltavskyi Raion	Полтавський район	1,259	67,095	Poltava (city)	N/A *
Pyriatynskyi Raion	Пирятинський район	864	31,809	Pyriatyn	15,796
Reshetylivskyi Raion	Решетилівський район	1,009	26,399	Reshetylivka	9,340
Semenivskyi Raion	Семенівський район	1,300	25,456	Semenivka	6,244
Shyshatsky Raion	Шишацький район	790	20,423	Shyshaky	4,545
Velyko Bahachskyi Raion	Великобагачанський район	1,000	25,145	Velyka Bahachka	8,350
Zinkivskyi Raion	Зіньківський район	1,360	34,700	Zinkiv	15,179

Note: Asterisks (*) Though the administrative center of the rayon is housed in the city/town that its named after, cities do not answer to the rayon authorities only towns do; instead they are directly subordinated to the oblast government and therefore are not counted as part of rayon statistics.

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.

References

↑ "Population Quantity". UkrStat (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 January 2016.

External links

State Administration of Poltava Region – official site (Ukrainian)
Information Card of the Region – official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Administrative divisions of Poltava Oblast

Administrative center: Poltava

Raions

Cities

Regional	Hadiach Komsomolsk Kremenchuk Lubny Myrhorod Poltava

District	Hlobyne Hrebinka Karlivka Khorol Kobeliaky Lokhvytsia Pyriatyn Zavodske Zinkiv

Urban-type settlements
Category:Poltava Oblast

Administrative divisions of Ukraine

Capital: Kiev

Oblasts	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

Cities with special status	Kiev Sevastopol¹

Autonomous republic	Crimea¹

Administrative centers	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lutsk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sevastopol Simferopol Sumy Ternopil Uzhhorod Vinnytsia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

¹Claimed and controlled by Russia as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol

Coordinates: 49°30′N 34°00′E / 49.500°N 34.000°E / 49.500; 34.000

Authority control	GND: 4706104-2

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