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 Kharkiv Raion was significantly expanded. One abolished raion, Derhachi Raion, as well as Liubotyn Municipality, part of Nova Vodolaha Raion, and the city of Kharkiv, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kharkiv Raion.[3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the population of the former Kharkiv Raion was 176,186 (2020 est.).[5]
Geography
The Kharkiv Raion is located in the north of the KharkivOblast.
On March 7, 1923, the government of the Ukrainian SSR, by the resolution of the Presidium of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee No. 315 of March 7, 1923, adopted a new system of administrative division of the territory of the republic. Uezd and volost were replaced by districts and okrugs. In the Kharkov province, instead of 10 counties, 5 districts were created, instead of 227 volosts - 77 districts, including Lyubotynsky, Kharkovsky, Lipetsky, Tsirkunovsky, Merefa and Korotichansky, located on the territory of the current Kharkov district within its borders until July 2020.
Over forty years, the district's territory underwent administrative-territorial changes five times. Thus, on February 19, 1939, 10 settlement and 9 village councils were transferred from the Kharkov district to the Dergachevsky district. After World War II, until the end of the 1950s, the district was called the Kharkov rural district.
Since the moment when the Kharkiv district was formed according to the Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of January 4, 1965 with the administrative center in the city of Kharkiv, the district's borders did not change until 2012/20. The area of the district within the 2012-20 borders was 136,431 hectares (1,364 km²).
The raion in the old borders until July 2020
In 2020, as part of the "optimization" of districts in the Kharkiv Oblast, the Verkhovna Rada left seven districts, including Kharkiv. By the resolution of July 17, 2020, as part of the Ukrainian administrative-territorial reform on the new division of the Kharkiv Oblast, the district was enlarged, and it included the territories:
The district is part of the Kharkiv industrial hub and has a developed multi-branch industry, which is represented by industrial enterprises of machine-building, light, food, building materials and other industries.
JSC "Merefyansky Glass Plant" is known far beyond the region for its products. JSC "Kuryazky House-Building Plant", JSC "Nadiya" for the production of window blocks from polyvinyl chloride, JSC "Rohansk Cardboard Factory", JSC "Santekhbuddetal", JSC "Opora", Merefyansky Mechanical Plant, Artemivsk Distillery and others.
An important branch of the district's economy is agriculture. Agricultural lands occupy - 100.5 hectares, agricultural lands - 103771 hectares, arable land - 71187 hectares. In the agricultural sector of the Kharkiv district, there are 38 agricultural enterprises of various forms of ownership, as well as 183 farms (13 of them have land over 100 hectares) and a number of small subsidiary farms, as well as enterprises: "Agrotechservice", "Agroplemservice", "Silgosphimiya", workshops for the production of food products - oils, flour, cereals, sausages, etc.
Transport
Stela of Kharkov raion
The territory of the district is saturated with railways, roads and pipelines. The total length of gas pipelines is 1451.53 km, 72256 households are gasified. The length of roads is 1372.9 km, including 598.2 km with hard surfaces. Such important highways as M-18 (E 105) Moscow - Simferopol, M-03 (E 40, E 50) Kyiv - Kharkov pass through the territory.
Subdivisions
Current
Map of the raion
After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 15 hromadas:[4]
Ukraine
Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv
