Yevpatoria Municipality

Yevpatoria City Municipality
Євпаторійська міськрада
Municipality

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Location of the municipality (dark blue) in Crimea
Coordinates: 45°12′13″N 33°21′41″E / 45.20361°N 33.36139°E / 45.20361; 33.36139Coordinates: 45°12′13″N 33°21′41″E / 45.20361°N 33.36139°E / 45.20361; 33.36139
Country

Disputed:

Republic Crimea
Established February 11, 1963
Admin. center Yevpatoria
Subdivisions
List
  • 1 cities
  • 3 towns
  • 0 villages
Government
 • City Mayor Andriy Danylenko[1]
Area
 • Total 65 km2 (25 sq mi)
Population (2013)
 • Total 119,258
 • Density 1,800/km2 (4,800/sq mi)
Time zone MSK (UTC+3)
Dialing code +380 6569
Website evp.rk.gov.ru

The Yevpatoria City Municipality (Ukrainian: Євпаторійська міськрада, translit. Yevpatoriis'ka mis'krada) is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. The region is located on the western coast of Crimea on the Black Sea's shore. Its administrative center is the city of Yevpatoria. Population: 119,258 (2014 Census).[2]

Name

The Yevpatoria City Municipality is also known by its two other native official names; in Russian as Evpatoriyskiy gorsovet (Евпаторийский горсовет), and in Crimean Tatar as Kezlev şeer şurası. Colloquially, the municipality is known as "the territory governed by the Yevpatoria City Council (Ukrainian: Євпаторійська міська рада).

History

The Yevpatoria City Municipality was formed on February 11, 1963 when the territory of the Yevpatoria Raion was absorbed into the already existing Saky Raion. At that time, the Yevpatoria municipality was established with the city of Yevpatoria governing the territory. The municipality was reestablished on May 1, 1990.

Demographics

The Yevpatoria City Municipality's population was 117,565 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census[3] and 123,505 as of April 1, 2013.[4]

The region's nationality composition results of the 2001 census was as follows:

All of the other nationalities took up the remaining 4.9 percent.[5]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions of Russia, Yevpatoria is, together with a number of urban and rural localities, incorporated separately as the town of republican significance of Yevpatoriya—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[6] As a municipal division, the town of republican significance of Yevpatoriya is incorporated as Yevpatoriya Urban Okrug.[7]

Within the framework of administrative divisions of Ukraine, Yevpatoria is incorporated as the town of republican significance of Yevpatoria.[8] Ukraine does not have municipal divisions.

Besides the city of Yevpatoria which serves as the region's administrative center, the Yevpatoria municipality also includes three urban-type settlements:

References

  1. ↑ "Yevpatoria City Council". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2014). "Таблица 1.3. Численность населения Крымского федерального округа, городских округов, муниципальных районов, городских и сельских поселений" [Table 1.3. Population of Crimean Federal District, Its Urban Okrugs, Municipal Districts, Urban and Rural Settlements]. Федеральное статистическое наблюдение «Перепись населения в Крымском федеральном округе». ("Population Census in Crimean Federal District" Federal Statistical Examination) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ "City of Yevpatoria". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Results of the population count on April 1, 2013 and the average for January-March 2013". Main Department of Statistics of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Linguistic composition of the population". Main Department of Statistics of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Law of the Republic of Crimea #35-ZRK
  7. ↑ Law of the Republic of Crimea #15-ZRK
  8. ↑ Чисельність наявного населення України (in Ukrainian). State Service of Statistics. Retrieved 8 August 2014.

External links

Administrative geographic location
Saky Raion
  Yevpatoria municipality  
Black Sea Saky municipality
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