Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast Полтавська область Poltavs’ka oblast’
—  Oblast  —
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Eik-name(s): Полтавщина (Poltavshchyna)
Location o Poltava Oblast (red) athin Ukraine (blue)
Kintra	Ukraine
Admin. centre	Poltava
Govrenment
- Governor	Oleksandr Udovichenko (Pairty o Regions)
- Oblast cooncil	? seats
- Chairperson	Volodymyr Marchenko (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc)
Aurie
- Tot	28,748 km2 (11,099.7 sq mi)
Aurie rank	Ranked 6t
Indwallers (2006)
- Tot	1,544,085
- Rank	Ranked 12t
- Densitie	53.7/km2 (139.1/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Simmer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	36000-38999
Aurie code	+380-53
ISO 3166 code	UA-53
Raions	25
Ceeties o oblast subordinance	5
Ceeties (total)	15
Touns	21
Villages	1831
FIPS 10-4	UP18
Wabsteid	www.obladmin.poltava.ua

Poltava Oblast (Ukrainian: Полтавська область, translit. Poltavs’ka oblast’; an aw referred tae as Poltavshchyna – Ukrainian: Полтавщина) is an oblast (province) o central Ukraine. The admeenistrative centre o the oblast is the ceety o Poltava.

Ither important ceeties athin the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny an Myrhorod.

Geography

Poltava Oblast is situatit in the central pairt o Ukraine. It haes an aurie o 28,800 km². The oblast’ borders upon Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovs’k, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy an Kiev regions.

Points o interest

The follaein historic-cultural steids wur nominatit for the Seiven Wanders o Ukraine.

• Gogol preserve-museum
• Kotliarevsky villa
• Mykolaivska Kirk
• Polatava ethnical museum
• Cross-Erectin monastery

Demographics

At 2005-05-01, its population wis 1,584,446, an population density wis 59 fowk per 1 km².

Economy

Industry

The oblast’ is a centre o Ukraine's ile an natural gas industry, wi mony wells an pipelines situatit here. There is a major ile refinery plant in the ceety o Kremenchuk. Important iron ore processin facilities an aw present. In general there are 374 lairge industrial organization an 618 sma industrial organizations.

Agricultur

In 1999 the gross grain yield wis aboot 1452,9 thoosan tons, sugar beets – 1002,900 tons, sunflouer seeds – 166,200 tons, potatoes – 279,900 tons. The oblast an aw producit 120,500 tons o meat, 645,900 tons o milk an 423,200,00 eggs. At the beginnin o 1999 there wur 1,311 registered ferms in the region.

Admeenistrative diveesions

The oblast is dividit intae 25 destricts, 15 ceeties includin 5 settlements o ceety estate, 21 urban veelages, an 1862 veelages.

The follaein data incorporates the number o each type o admeenistrative diveesions o the Poltava Oblast’:

• Admeenistrative centre – 1 (Poltava)
• Raions — 25;
• Ceety raions — 5;
• Settlements — 1526, includin:
  • Veelages — 1,831;
  • Ceeties/Touns — 35, includin:
    • Urban-type settlement — 21;
    • Ceeties — 15, includin:
      • Ceeties o oblast' subordinance — 7;
      • Ceeties o raion subordinance — 8;
• Settlement cooncils — 384.

The local admeenistration o the oblast' is controlled bi the Poltava Oblast Rada. The govrenor o the oblast’ is the Poltava Oblast’ Rada speaker, appointit bi the Preses o Ukraine.

Nomenclatur

Maist o Ukraine's oblasts are namit efter their caipital ceeties, offeecially referred tae as "oblast centres" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr). The name o each oblast is a relative adjective, formit bi addin a feminine suffix tae the name o respective centre ceety: Poltava is the centre o the Poltavs’ka oblast’ (Poltava Oblast). Maist oblasts are an aw sometimes referred tae in a feminine noun form, follaein the convention o traditional regional place names, endin wi the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case wi the Poltava Oblast, Poltavshchyna.

See an aw: Romanisation o Ukrainian

External links

• State Administration of Poltava Region – official site (Ukrainian)
• Information Card of the Region – official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine