Komunarskyi_District

Komunarskyi District

Komunarskyi District

City district of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

The Komunarskyi District (Ukrainian: Комунарський район, romanized: Komunarskyi raion) is one of seven administrative urban districts (raions) of the city of Zaporizhzhia, located in southern Ukraine. Its population was 139,222 in the 2001 Ukrainian Census,[3] and 134,465 as of 2012.[2]

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The raion contains the informal Pivdennyi (Southern) and Kosmichnyi (Cosmic) residential neighborhoods within its boundaries.

Geography

The Komunarskyi District is named after the former Komunar factory (currently, the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant) which is located within the district's boundaries. The district is located in the southeastern portion of the city, on the left-bank of the Dnipro River, just north of the urban-type settlement of Balabyne, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Its total area is 61 km2 (24 sq mi).[4]

History

On 6 April 1977, the Komunarskyi District was established out of a portion of the present-day Oleksandrivskyi District by a decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (No.1901-ІХ).[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Komunarskyi District". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Site of the Zaporizhzhia City Government. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Number of the population of the City of Zaporizhzhia" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Komunarskyi District, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, City of Zaporizhzhia". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Passport of the Komunarskyi District of the City of Zaporizhzhia". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Site of the Zaporizhzhia City Government. Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  • "Main". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Site of the Zaporizhzhia City Government. Archived from the original on 23 May 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  • "Pages of history of the Komunarskyi District" (in Ukrainian). Territorial Department of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Komunarskyi Raion. Retrieved 19 January 2015.


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