Vyshhorod Raion

Vyshhorod Raion (Ukrainian: Вишгородський район) is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Vyshhorod. It has a population of 132,136 (2022 estimate).^[1]

Vyshhorod Raion Вишгородський район
Raion
Вишгородський район (Vyshhorodskyi raion)
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Vyshhorod Raion after the 2020 raion reform
Coordinates: 50°49′4″N 30°19′23″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kyiv Oblast
Established	April 12, 1973
Admin. center	Vyshhorod
Subdivisions	7 hromadas
Population  (2022)[1]
• Total	132,136
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Area code	+380

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 Vyshhorod Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Ivankiv and Poliske Raions, as well as the cities of Slavutych and Vyshhorod, which were previously incorporated as cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Vyshhorod Raion.^[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 76,347 (2020 est.).^[4]

Description

The raion was created on April 12, 1973, from territories of Ivankiv Raion and Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion. The raion is located around the Kyiv Reservoir. Its administrative center is at the southern edge of the territory.

Before 2020, the raion bordered four other raions of Kyiv Oblast and two other regions of Ukraine – the city of Kyiv and Chernihiv Oblast. To the north and northwest from the raion Ivankiv Raion was located which also included territory of the former Chernobyl Raion, to the west there was Borodianka Raion, to the southwest Vyshhorod Raion bordered with Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion, to the south with Obolon Raion of the city of Kyiv, to the southeast with Brovary Raion, while to the east and northeast it bordered Kozelets Raion of Chernihiv Oblast.

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych's private residence Mezhyhirya is located near the village of Novi Petrivtsi.^[5][6][7][8]

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 7 hromadas:^[3]

Obukhiv Raion subdivisions

Hromada (Community)	Admin. center	Population (2020)	Transferred/Retained from
Chernobyl exclusion zone	Kyiv[citation needed]	0
Dymer settlement	Dymer	21,042
Ivankiv settlement	Ivankiv	28,798	Ivankiv Raion;[9]
Petrivtsi rural	Novi Petrivtsi	12,001
Pirnove rural	Pirnove	6,764
Poliske settlement	Krasiatychi	5,391	Poliske Raion;[10]
Slavutych urban	Slavutych	24,464	city of oblast significance of Slavutych;[11]
Vyshhorod urban	Vyshhorod	33,276

There are no official residents in the Chernobyl exclusion zone which is under special administration from a state agency. Due to elevated radiation certain people are allowed to live who are known as samosely. The city of Slavutych, an exclave in Chernihiv Oblast, remains a de facto company-type of community connected with the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas,^[12]

• Dymer settlement hromada with the administration in Dymer;
• Petrivtsi rural hromada with the administration in Novi Petrivtsi;
• Pirnove rural hromada with the administration in Pirnove;
• Vyshhorod urban hromada with the administration in Vyshhorod.

Notable people

• Peter Andreychuk (1892-1937), victim of religious persecution
• Hanna Veres, textile artist

Gallery

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  Vyshhorod Raion in Kyiv Oblast (1966-2020)
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  Vyshhorod Raion map before the 2020 raion reform
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  Vyshhorod Raion map after the 2020 raion reform
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  Vyshhorod Raion map after the 2020 raion reform