Kherson Oblast

Kherson Oblast (Ukrainian: Херсонська область, translit. Khersons’ka oblast’; also referred to as Khersonshchyna – Ukrainian: Херсонщина) is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson. The area of the region is 28,461 km², its population (as of 1 January 2012) is 1,083,367.^[3]

Important cities in the oblast include:

Geography

The Kherson Oblast is bordered by the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the north, the Black Sea and the disputed region of Crimea on the south, the Mykolayiv Oblast on the west, and the Azov Sea and the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the east.

The Dnieper River runs through the oblast which includes the Kakhovka Reservoir.

The oblast includes (within Henichesk Raion) the northern portion of the Arabat Spit, a thin strip of land between the brackish Syvash and the Sea of Azov that is geographically part of the Crimean Peninsula. Due to Russia gaining de facto control of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2014 the southern areas of Kherson are the only parts of the Crimean Peninsula under direct Ukrainian control.

Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Kherson Oblast

The Kherson Oblast is administratively subdivided into 18 raions (districts) and 3 municipalities which are directly subordinate to the oblast government - Kherson (administrative center of the oblast), Nova Kakhovka, and Kakhovka. The Kherson municipality is subdivided into 3 urban districts. All information below is current as of 2015^[2]

Name	Ukrainian name	Area (km²)	Population census 2015	Admin.center	Urban Population Only
Kherson	Херсон (місто)	423	333,737	Kherson (city)	322,260
Nova Kakhovka	Нова Каховкa (місто)	223	68,205	Nova Kakhovka + Tavriisk (city)	62,128
Kakhovka	Каховкa(місто)	16	36,958	Kakhovka (city)	36,958
Beryslav Raion	Бериславський (район)	1,721	48,025	Beryslav	16,682
Bilozerka Raion	Білозерський (район)	1,534	66,564	Bilozerka	9,739
Chaplynka Raion	Чаплинський (район)	1,722	35,219	Chaplynka	12,638
Henichesk Raion	Генічеський (район)	3,008	59,991	Henichesk	33,748
Hola Prystan Raion	Голопристанський (район)	3,411	45,827	Hola Prystan	14,666
Hornostaivka Raion	Горностаївський (район)	1,018	19,788	Hornostaivka	6,681
Ivanivka Raion	Іванівський (район)	1,120	13,995	Ivanivka	4,560
Kalanchak Raion	Каланчацький (район)	916	21,568	Kalanchak	11,169
Kakhovka Raion	Каховський (район)	1,450	35,968	Kakhovka (city)	N/A *
Novotroitske Raion	Новотроїцький (район)	2,298	35,921	Novotroitske	14,979
Novovorontsovka Raion	Нововоронцовський (район)	1,005	21,442	Novovorontsovka	6,379
Nyzhni Sirohozy Raion	Нижньосірогозький (район)	1,209	15,985	Nyzhni Sirohozy	4,891
Oleshky Raion	Олешківський (район)	1,759	71,888	Oleshky	36,317
Skadovsk Raion	Скадовський (район)	1,456	47,930	Skadovsk	21,830
Velyka Lepetykha Raion	Великолепетиський (район)	1,000	16,827	Velyka Lepetykha	8,326
Velyka Oleksandrivka Raion	Великоолександрівський (район)	1,540	25,948	Velyka Oleksandrivka	9,747
Verkhnii Rohachyk Raion	Верхньорогачицький (район)	915	12,003	Verkhnii Rohachyk	5,698
Vysokopillia Raion	Високопільський (район)	701	15,121	Vysokopillia	6,148

.* Note: 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.

At a lower level of administration, these district-level administrations are subdivided into:

Settlements – 697, including:
- Villages – 658;
- Cities/Towns – 36, including:
  - Cities of raion subordinance – 6 (Beryslav, Henichesk, Hola Prystan, Skadovsk, Tavriisk and Oleshky);
  - Urban-type settlement – 30;
Selsovets – 260.

The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Kherson Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast is the Kherson Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Kherson Oblast State Administration

Demographics

The population of the oblast is 1,083,367 (2012), which is 2.4% of the total population of Ukraine. It is also ranked 21st by its population. The population density is 38 per km².

About 61.5% or 745,400 people live in urban areas of the Oblast and 38.5% or 467,600 people live in agricultural centers/villages. Men make up 46.7% or 565,400 people of the population, women make up 53.3% or 644,600 people, and pensioners make up 26.2% or 317,400 people of the Oblast population.

Ukrainian National Census (2001):

Ukrainians – 82.0%
Russians – 14.1%
Belarusians – 0.7%
Crimean Tatars – 0.5%
Others – 2.7%

Age structure

0-14 years: 15.1%

(male 83,397/female 79,303)

15-64 years: 70.5%

(male 364,907/female 393,933)

65 years and over: 14.4%

(male 50,404/female 104,856) (2013 official)

Median age

total: 39.5 years

male: 36.2 years

female: 42.7 years

(2013 official)

Attractions

Typical agricultural landscape of Ukraine, Kherson Oblast

Askania-Nova
Legendary tachanka monument
Kurhan cemetery
Shovkunek Art museum
Saint-Yekaterynian Temple

Public opinion

During the 1991 referendum, 90.13% of votes in Kherson Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. A survey conducted in December 2014 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found 1% of the oblast's population supported their region joining Russia, 94.9% did not support the idea, and the rest were undecided or did not respond.^[4]

References

1 2 Poroshenko appoints MP Andriy Hordeyev Kherson regional governor, Interfax-Ukraine (28 April 2016)
1 2 "Population Quantity". UkrStat (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 7 January 2016.
↑ State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
↑ Лише 3% українців хочуть приєднання їх області до Росії [Only 3% of Ukrainians want their region to become part of Russia]. Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (in Ukrainian). 3 January 2015.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kherson Oblast.

Portal of Kherson
Site of Kherson nationalists
State Administration of Kherson Region – official site (Ukrainian)
Information Card of the Region – official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Promo-video about Kherson and South of Ukraine - official YouTube channel of The center of tourism and adventures "ХерсON"

Administrative divisions of Kherson Oblast

Administrative center: Kherson

Raions

Cities

Regional	Hola Prystan Kakhovka Kherson Nova Kakhovka

District	Beryslav Henichesk Oleshky Skadovsk Tavriysk

Urban-type settlements
Category:Kherson 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 Kropyvnytskyi 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

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast
Black Sea
Odessa Oblast

Zaporizhia Oblast

Kherson Oblast

Black Sea

Republic of Crimea

Coordinates: 46°30′N 34°00′E / 46.500°N 34.000°E / 46.500; 34.000

Authority control	GND: 4521442-6

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