Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion (Ukrainian: Самбірський район) is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sambir. Population: 224,126 (2021 est.)[1]. It was established in 1965.
Sambir Raion
Самбірський район | |
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| Coordinates: 49°33′4″N 23°19′20″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Region | Lviv Oblast |
| Established | 8 January 1965 |
| Admin. center | Sambir |
| Subdivisions | 11 hromadas |
| Area | |
| • Total | 934 km2 (361 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Total | 224,126 |
| • Density | 240/km2 (620/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal index | 81420—81485 |
| Area code | 380-3236 |
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Sambir Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Staryi Sambir and Turka Raions, as well as the city of Sambir, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Sambir Raion.[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 67,063 (2020 est.)[4]
Subdivisions
Before 2020
Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas,[5]
- Biskovychi rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Biskovychi;
- Novyi Kalyniv urban hromada with the administration in the city of Novyi Kalyniv;
- Ralivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Ralivka;
- Rudky urban hromada with the administration in the city of Rudky.
After 2020
After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 11 hromadas:[3]
- Biskovychi rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Biskovychi, retained from Sambir Raion;
- Borynia settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Borynia, transferred from Turka Raion;[6]
- Dobromyl urban hromada with the administration in the city of Dobromyl, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;[7]
- Khyriv urban hromada with the administration in the city of Khyriv, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;[7]
- Novyi Kalyniv urban hromada with the administration in the city of Novyi Kalyniv, retained from Sambir Raion;
- Ralivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Ralivka, retained from Sambir Raion;
- Rudky urban hromada with the administration in the city of Rudky, retained from Sambir Raion.
- Sambir urban hromada, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Sambir;[8]
- Staryi Sambir urban hromada with the administration in the city of Staryi Sambir, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;[7]
- Strilky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Strilky, transferred from Staryi Sambir Raion;[7]
- Turka urban hromada with the administration in the city of Turka, transferred from Turka Raion.[6]
Settlements in Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion consists of 2 city communities, 1 settlement community, 7 rural communities and 9 village councils, which unite 110 settlements and are subordinate to the Sambir district council. The administrative center is the city of Sambir, which is a city of regional importance and is not part of the district.[9]
United territorial communities of Sambir district:
- Babinska village community
- Biskovichi rural community
- Vilshanitsky village community
- Wole-Baranetskaya rural community
- Voyutychi village community
- Dubljanska settlement community
- Lukivska village community
- Novokalinivska city community
- Rudkovska city community
- Chukvyan rural community
Villages:
People from Sambir Raion
- Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570-1622) — a Ukrainian political and civic leader, Hetman of Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Marko Zhmaylo-Kulchytskyy — Registered Cossacks Hetman (1625), leader of the peasant-Cossack Zhmaylo Uprising in 1625.
- Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky (1640-1694) — Ukrainian political and civic leader.
- Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006) — Ukrainian-American historian, first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[10]
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky
References
- Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2021 / Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2021 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
- "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
- Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
- "Самбірська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- "Турківська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- "Старосамбірська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- "Самбірська територіальна громада" (in Ukrainian). decentralization.gov.ua.
- Адміністративно-територіальний устрій Самбірського району на сайті Верховної Ради України
- Woloschuk, Peter T. (11 June 2006). "Omeljan Pritsak, scholar of Ukrainian, Turkic studies, 87". Obituary. The Ukrainian Weekly. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
