Kupiansk Raion

Kupiansk Raion (Ukrainian: Куп'янський район) is a raion (district) in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Kupiansk. Population: 130,111 (2022 estimate).^[2]

Kupiansk Raion Куп'янський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Raion location in Kharkiv Oblast
Coordinates: 49°40′35.85″N 37°41′10.5612″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kharkiv Oblast
Admin. center	Kupiansk
Subdivisions	8 hromadas
Area [1]
• Total	4,612.9 km2 (1,781.1 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]
• Total	130,111
• Density	28/km2 (73/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Website	http://kupyansk-rayon.osp-ua.info/

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Kupiansk Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Dvorichna, Shevchenkove, and Velykyi Burluk Raions, as well as the city of Kupiansk, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kupiansk Raion.^[3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 23,180 (2020 est.).^[5]

It is approximately 120 kilometers to the east of Kharkiv and 40 kilometers south of the border with Russia.

Settlements

• Tabaivka

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consists of 8 hromadas:^[4]

• Dvorichna settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Dvorichna, transferred from Dvorichna Raion;^[6]
• Kindrashivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of 1Kindrashivka [uk], retained from Kupiansk Raion;
• Kupiansk urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kupiansk, transferred from Kupiansk Municipality;^[7]
• Kurylivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Kurylivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion;
• Petropavlivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Petropavlivka, retained from Kupiansk Raion;
• Shevchenkove settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Shevchenkove, transferred from Shevchenkove Raion;^[8]
• Velykyi Burluk settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Velykyi Burluk, transferred from Velykyi Burluk Raion;^[9]
• Vilkhuvatka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Vilkhuvatka, transferred from Velykyi Burluk Raion.^[9]

Before 2020

Kupiansk Raion in Kharkiv Oblast before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas:^[10]

• Kindrashivka rural hromada with the administration in Kindrashivka;
• Kurylivka rural hromada with the administration in Kurylivka;
• Petropavlivka rural hromada with the administration in Petropavlivka.

Notable people

• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiologist
• Vladimir Dudintsev, Ukrainian-born Russian writer