Shevchenkivskyi District
Шевченківський район
Country Ukraine
Oblast Kharkiv Oblast
Area
  Total62 km2 (24 sq mi)
Population
  Total231,641
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
  1. Kholodnohirskyi District
  2. Shevchenkivskyi District
  3. Kyivskyi District
  4. Saltivskyi District
  5. Nemyshlyanskyi District
  6. Industrialnyi District
  7. Slobidskyi District
  8. Osnovianskyi District
  9. Novobavarskyi District

Shevchenkivskyi District (Ukrainian: Шевченківський район) is an urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.[1]

The district was created in 1932 out of parts of Ivano-Lysohirskyi and Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi districts. It was named as Dzerzhynskyi after the communist mass murderer Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission). It was renamed to its current name in February 2016 to comply with decommunization laws.[1]

Places

  • Universytetska hirka
  • Derzhprom (Gosprom)
  • Pavlivka
  • Shatylivka
  • Sokolnyky
  • Pavlove Pole
  • Oleksiivka
  • Tykhi vulytsi


References

50°01′N 36°13′E / 50.017°N 36.217°E / 50.017; 36.217


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