Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast (Template:Lang-uk, translit. Poltavs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – Template:Lang-uk) 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: Horishni Plavni, 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

Main article: Administrative divisions of Poltava Oblast

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	Admin.center	Urban Population Only
Poltava	Полта́ва (місто)	103	293,945	Poltava (city)	293,945
Horishni Plavni	Горішні Плавні (місто)	34	54,701	Horishni Plavni (town)	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
Chornukhy Raion	Чорнухинський район	682	11,485	Chornukhy	2,581
Chutove Raion	Чутівський район	861	22,976	Chutove	9,468
Dykanka Raion	Диканський район	679	18,993	Dykanka	7,804
Hadiach Raion	Гадяцький район	1,595	29,767	Hadiach	24,005
Hlobyne Raion	Глобинський район	2,500	44,007	Hlobyne	16,182
Hrebinka Raion	Гребінківський район	595	22,589	Hrebinka	10,926
Karlivka Raion	Карлівський район	854	34,121	Karlivka	14,997
Khorol Raion	Хорольський район	1,062	34,670	Khorol	13,304
Kobeliaky Raion	Кобеляцький район	1,823	42,419	Kobeliaky	14,982
Kotelva Raion	Котелевський район	800	19,674	Kotelva	12,406
Kozelshchyna Raion	Козельщинський район	930	19,575	Kozelshchyna	5,981
Kremenchuk Raion	Кременчуцький район	1,200	39,699	Kremenchuk (city)	N/A *
Lokhvytsia Raion	Лохвицький район	1,300	43,274	Lokhvytsia	20,187
Lubny Raion	Лубенський район	1,378	31,983	Lubny (city)	N/A *
Mashivka Raion	Машівський район	889	19,609	Mashivka	3,815
Myrhorod Raion	Миргородський район	1,540	32,115	Myrhorod (city)	N/A *
Novi Sanzhary Raion	Новосанжарський район	1,300	34,620	Novi Sanzhary	8,375
Orzhytsia Raion	Оржицький район	1,000	24228	Orzhytsia	5,369
Poltava Raion	Полтавський район	1,259	67,095	Poltava (city)	N/A *
Pyriatyn Raion	Пирятинський район	864	31,809	Pyriatyn	15,796
Reshetylivka Raion	Решетилівський район	1,009	26,399	Reshetylivka	9,340
Semenivka Raion	Семенівський район	1,300	25,456	Semenivka	6,244
Shyshaky Raion	Шишацький район	790	20,423	Shyshaky	4,545
Velyka Bahachka Raion	Великобагачанський район	1,000	25,145	Velyka Bahachka	8,350
Zinkiv 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" (Template:Lang-uk, 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.

See also: Romanization of Ukrainian

External links

• State Administration of Poltava Region – official site Template:Uk icon
• Information Card of the Region – official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine